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A NEW ERA OF EDUCATION FEDERALISM
Pages 15-17

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... Goals 2000 establishes a framework for standards-based reform, codifies eight national education goals in federal law, authorizes funding and other incentives to encourage states to adopt and implement standards, calls for participating states to develop assessments aligned with standards, and authorizes federal money to develop and evaluate new assessments. The ESEA legislation revises the testing and accountability requirements of the Chapter ~ program for disadvantaged children (renamed Title T)
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... One question revolved around the decision in the legislation to use the same system of standards and assessments for multiple purposes, from measuring individual student progress tO enforcing institutional accountability. As an altemative, it was suggested that individual student assessments and institutional accountability were different functions requiring different measurements: for the former, schools could use multiple measures designed by teachers, and for the latter, standards-based assessments administered through matrix sampling.
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... For example, what is the standing of voluntary national standards that are authorized by federal legislation, developed by national but nonfederal panels, certified by a federally established body that includes nonfederal representatives, and offered as a mode! to guide state standards but not control state curricula?
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