Avoidable losses: High-stakes accountability and the dropout crisis.

dc.creator	Linda McSpadden McNeil
dc.creator	Eileen Coppola
dc.creator	Judy Radigan
dc.creator	Julian Vasquez Heilig
dc.date	2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:14:14Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:14:14Z
dc.identifier	1068-2341
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/d22b697ed0f44c6599de99a35e2b2478
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/16667
dc.description	In the state of Texas, whose standardized, high-stakes test-based accountability system became the model for the nation's most comprehensive federal education policy, more than 135,000 youth are lost from the state's high schools every year. Dropout rates are highest for African American and Latino youth, more than 60% for the students we followed. Findings from this study, which included analysis of the accountability policy in operation in high-poverty high schools in a major urban district, analysis of student-level data for more than 271,000 students in that district over a seven-year period under this policy, and extensive ethnographic analysis of life in schools under the policy, show that the state's high-stakes accountability system has a direct impact on the severity of the dropout problem. The study carries great significance for national education policy because its findings show that disaggregation of student scores by race does not lead to greater equity, but in fact puts our most vulnerable youth, the poor, the English language learners, and African American and Latino children, at risk of being pushed out of their schools so the school ratings can show "measurable improvement." High-stakes, test-based accountability leads not to equitable educational possibilities for youth, but to avoidable losses of these students from our schools.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Spanish
dc.language	Portuguese
dc.publisher	Arizona State University
dc.relation	http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/28
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1068-2341
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	Education Policy Analysis Archives, Vol 16, p 3 (2008)
dc.subject	high-stakes testing
dc.subject	dropouts
dc.subject	accountability
dc.subject	Latino youth
dc.subject	African American youth.
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Avoidable losses: High-stakes accountability and the dropout crisis.
dc.type	article