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Making Change: Three Educators Join the Battle for Better Schools.

Holland, Holly – 1998

In 1990, in response to court orders, Kentucky took the unprecedented step of throwing out the state's entire public educational system. Using outside consultants, they fashioned a model for education reform that many experts have hailed as the best in the United States. The Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) has become a beacon of hope for a…

Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Principals

Accountability, Assessment, and Teacher Commitment: Lessons from Kentucky's Reform Efforts. SUNY Series, Restructuring and School Change.

Whitford, Betty Lou, Ed.; Jones, Ken, Ed. – 2000

This book documents classroom practices and considers the implementation and consequences of the Kentucky Education Reform (KERA) Act through case studies, comparisons to other models, and responses from national experts. The chapters are: (1) "Kentucky Lesson: How High Stakes School Accountability Undermines a Performance-Based Curriculum…

Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education