Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction The Accountability Debate in Texas: Continuing the Conversation 1
5. Performance-Based School Reforms and the Federal Role in Helping Schools That Serve Language-Minority Students 33
6. Faking Equity: High-Stakes Testing and the Education of Latino Youth 57
7. Texas’ Second Wave of High-Stakes Testing: Anti–Social Promotion Legislation, Grade Retention, and Adverse Impact on Minorities 113
8. Playing to the Logic of the Texas Accountability System: How Focusing on “Ratings”—Not Children—Undermines Quality and Equity 153
9. Standardized or Sterilized? Differing Perspectives on the Effects of High-Stakes Testing in West Texas 179
10. California’s English-Only Policies: An Analysis of Initial Effects 201
11. The Centurion: Standards and High-Stakes Testing as Gatekeepers for Bilingual Teacher Candidates in the New Century 225
12. High-Stakes Testing and Educational Accountability as Social Constructions Across Cultures 249
13. Accountability and the Privatization Agenda 263
14. About the Contributors 295
15. Index 299