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Wilson, Thomas A. – 1996
This book provokes a re-examination of how expert knowledge, not practitioner know-how, has come to dominate how Americans judge and improve schools. It depicts the English tradition of school inspection to provoke the invention of better ways for judging and knowing schools in America. Data were gathered by observation of 39 local and national…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education