School Performance Standards: The State's Responsibility.

Baratz, Joan C.

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ERIC Number: EJ222872

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1979

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School Performance Standards: The State's Responsibility.

Baratz, Joan C.

New York University Education Quarterly, v10 n4 p10-16 Sum 1979

In setting performance standards for schoolchildren, the school system not only announces what students must know; it specifies what it presumes it can teach. Tests of competency should be merely a monitoring device to indicate whether the system is meeting its obligation to students. (Author)

Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role, Graduation Requirements, Legal Responsibility, Minimum Competency Testing, Political Issues, School Responsibility, State Legislation, State Standards

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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