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No Child, No School, No State Left behind: Schooling in the Age of Accountability
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Hopmann, Stefan Thomas – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2008
Why and under which conditions do international student assessment programmes like PISA have success? How can the results of these assessments be useful for advocates of different, even contradictory, policies? What might explain different patterns of using assessment as a tool for school governance? Drawing on historical and comparative research,…
Descriptors: Governance, Social Change, Accountability, Student Evaluation
Department Raps States on Testing
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Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2006
The U.S. Department of Education has notified 10 states that it intends to withhold a portion of their state administrative funds under the Title I program for failing to comply fully with the testing provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act by the end of the 2005-06 school year. Those funds would instead be diverted directly to school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Federal Legislation, Testing Programs, Educational Finance
Fraudulent Medical Degrees. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the Select Committee on Aging. House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Aging. – 1984
The purchase of fraudulent medical degrees and credentials and the provision of medical care by unqualified people posing as doctors are the subject of these hearings before the U.S. House of Representatives. Investigations revealed the following findings: U.S. citizens who graduated from foreign medical school have received medical licenses…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Certification, Cheating, Credentials