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Article Excerpt
Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right
By Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen and Tamara Wilder
Economic Policy Institute and Teachers College Press, 2008, $19.95; 263 pages.
Some may take this wrong-headed book seriously, given the credentials of lead author Richard Rothstein, former New York Times education columnist, all-around smarty, and veteran maneuverer on the education-policy chessboard. Its timing is deft, too, as it savages the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and offers recommendations for its overhaul (overthrow, really) just as a new administration and Congress face its reauthorization.
Rothstein and a pair of junior colleagues advance three central theses, all of which are wrong--though they'll appeal to a strange alliance of progressive educators and (up to a point) conservative Republicans.
First, and most NCLB-relevant, "We should get the federal government out of the business of monitoring education at the school or student level." But it's not just Uncle Sam who should quit judging performance by students (and schools and districts) via "short-term test score measures...
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