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• Foreword by Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Preface
• CHAPTER 1: Wanting the Best
• CHAPTER 2: Fewer Teachers, Better Teachers
• CHAPTER 3: Developing Great Teachers
• CHAPTER 4: Great Leaders, Great Teachers
• CHAPTER 5: Getting the Best Notes About the Author About the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education Index.
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Public schools face the challenge of educating large numbers of students for whom learning does not come easily. They are institutions with long-established practices, often protected by politics and therefore highly resistant to change. The Best Teachers in the World explains why changing our traditional approach to improving our schools is critical and tells how to achieve such change. John Chubb shows how we can raise student achievement to levels comparable to those of the best nations in the world through a new strategy for raising teacher quality that is very different from the approach our country has historically followed. He asserts that we must attract and retain high-calibre individuals to teaching, train teachers in institutions and programs that can demonstrate their efficacy in producing teachers who raise student achievement, and improve the quality of school leadership. Chubb suggests moving beyond licensing and other regulatory approaches to teacher quality to focus on providing quality by measuring performance directly-including direct measurement of both teacher effectiveness and training effectiveness-with the success of each gauged by the ability of participants subsequently to raise student achievement. Given strong incentives to perform and the information to do so, he shows, the American educational system can improve teacher training and raise teacher quality to the highest levels in the world.
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The pressing need to improve achievement in American schools is widely recognized. In Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform, Herbert J. Walberg draws on scientific studies of tests and their uses to inform citizens, educators, and policy makers about well-established principles of testing, current problems, and promising evidence-based solutions. He explains the central considerations in developing and evaluating good tests and tells how tests can best be used, covering such topics as using tests for student incentives, paying teachers for performance, and using tests in efforts to attain new state and national standards. To minimize mistaken policies and practices, the book also describes testing technology to enable readers to evaluate and make better use of tests. And because valid tests cannot be developed without clear, specific standards, one chapter is devoted to discussing standards and how they should determine the plans and development of tests and testing. In view of the continuing technical and political problems of tests and testing, the last chapter argues that, for accountability, to improve tests and testing, and to prevent fraud, the development, administration, scoring, and reporting test results should be conducted independent of traditional school authorities.
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• The slow but steady progress of pro-choice politics
• Too little money moves with students
• Quality new schools are rare, hard to start
• Instructional innovation is slow
• Influence on the educational labor force is slight
• Bad schools don't always close
• Choice can move more rapidly
• About the author
• About the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education.

Paul T. Hill examines the real-world factors that can complicate, delay, and in some instances interfere with the positive cause-and-effect relationships identified by the theories behind school choice. He explains why schools of choice haven't yet achieved a broader appeal and suggests more realistic expectations about timing and a more complete understanding of what must be done to make choice work.
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Presents a convincing case that, despite the controversy it has ignited, the US No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law is making a positive difference and should be renewed. It outlines ten specific lessons and recommendations that identify the strengths and weaknesses of NCLB and offers suggestions for improving the law, building on its current foundation.
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• The rolling juggernaut
• The school-readiness challenge
• Preschool or child care?
• A crowded landscape
• The quality conundrum
• Murky evidence
• The Florida story
• The Oklahoma story
• The problem of Head Start
• Costs and benefits
• Rival delivery systems
• A better route to travel.

• Introduction / Paul T. Hill
• The supply of charter schools / Caroline M. Hoxby
• Charter school funding / Eric Osberg
• School choice in Milwaukee fifteen years later / Paul E. Peterson with Nathan Torinus and Brad Smith
• Authorizing: the missing link / Chester E. Finn and Paul T. Hill
• Should charter schools be a cottage industry? / John E. Chubb
• Chartering and innovating / Chester E. Finn, Jr.
• Realizing chartering's full potential / Paul T. Hill.

The expert contributors to this volume tell how state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, forcing them to pay rent out of operating funds, and other ways. They explain how these policies can be amended to level the playing field and give charter schools-and the children they serve-a fairer chance to succeed.
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• Introduction / Eric A. Hanushek
• Campaign for fiscal equity v. New York: the march of folly / Sol Stern
• The legal backdrop to adequacy / Alfred A. Lindseth
• High-poverty, high-performance schools, districts, and states / Herbert J. Walberg
• High-spending, low-performing school districts / Williamson M. Evers and Paul Clopton
• Thorough and efficient private and public schools / Paul E. Peterson
• How can anyone say what's adequate if nobody knows how money is spent now? / Marguerite Roza and Paul T. Hill
• Science violated: spending projections and the "costing out" of an adequate education / Eric A. Hanushek
• Adequacy beyond dollars: the productive use of school time / E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
• Funding for performance: a policy statement of the Koret Task Force.

The expert contributors to this volume assess recent court actions in school adequacy lawsuits and their impact on student outcomes. They show that simply throwing more resources at the problem has not brought about a solution and call for changes centered around accountability, incentives, and more informed parents and policymakers.
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• Introduction and overview / Williamson M. Evers and Herbert J. Walberg
• Examinations for educational productivity / Herbert J. Walberg
• Why testing experts hate testing / Richard R. Phelps
• Early reading assessment / Barbara R. Foorman, Jack M. Fletcher, and David J. Francis
• Science and mathematics testing: what's right and wrong with the NAEP and TIMSS? / Stan Metzenberg
• Telling lessons from the TIMSS videotape / Alan R. Siegel
• Portfolio assessment and education reform / Brian Stecher
• Using performance assessment for accountability purposes / William A. Mehrens
• Learning from Kentucky's failed accountability system / George K. Cunningham
• Accountability works in Texas / Darvin M. Winick and Sandy Kress
• Appendix: conference agenda.

This book takes a hard look at the professional, technical, and public policy issues surrounding student achievement and teacher effectiveness-and shows how testing and accountability can play a vital role in improving American schools.
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School Figures presents statistics, along with historical trends and cross-sectional comparisons, to provide a clear, factual picture of today's K-12 education landscape, including information on school demographics, cost and finance, testing and achievement, public school reform, and other key areas.
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• Baselines for assessment of choice programs / Paul T. Hill, Kacey Guin
• Who chooses? who uses? Participation in a national school voucher program / Paul E. Peterson, David E. Campbell, Martin R. West
• A supply-side view of student selectivity / John E. Chubb
• Will quality of peers doom those left in the public schools? / Eric A. Hanushek
• How school choice affects the achievement of public school students / Caroline M. Hoxby
• The structure of school choice / Terry M. Moe.

The review of the furious national debate over school choice examines the benefits of choice for children, families, and schools-and shows how properly designed choice programmes can prevent the hramful putcomes opponents fear.
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This review of the furious national debate over school choice examines the benefits of choice for children, families, and schools-and shows how properly designed choice programs can prevent the harmful outcomes opponents fear.
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Analyzing and ultimately placing in context Paul Hanna's vast contributions, this book provides a richly textured narrative of his life and his major role in twentieth-century American education and the development of modern American education.
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A group of expert authors from a wide range of perspectives reveals what is known about accountability, what still needs to be learned, what should be done right now, and what should be avoided in devising accountability systems.
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In this book some of the brightest minds in education research have studied pressing questions about teacher quality and practices, reviewed thousands of education studies, examined state test scores, explored education theories, and then affirmed that we know what works. We must now ensure that the system provides the best possible education for kids.
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This book explores a wide range of critical areas in education, examines the basic nature of our education problems, provides a clear understanding of underperformance, and proposes reasonable and effective strategies for success.
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