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Direct linkKane, Thomas J.; Staiger, Douglas O. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2002
By the spring of 2000, forty states had begun using student test scores to rate school performance. Twenty states have gone a step further and are attaching explicit monetary rewards or sanctions to a school's test performance. In this paper, the authors focus on accountability programs in which states measure the effectiveness of individual…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Accountability, Scores, Risk
