Reclaiming Assessment: A Better Alternative to the Accountability Agenda by Chris W. Gallagher (Heniemann, 160 pages, $18.50) Reclaiming Assessment: A Better Alternative to the Accountability Agenda argues that centralized accountability mandates have stifled local schools from designing context-appropriate assessments for their own students. The “Nebraska Story,” the centerpiece of Chris Gallagher’s provocative book, offers a portrait of one state’s decision
By David Tyack (Harvard University Press, 237 pages, $22.95), BUY NOW! reviewed by Frank Honts In Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society, historian David Tyack writes with present-day educational debates in mind, studying how schools have tried to achieve consensus of purpose while dealing with diverse populations. Faith in democratic principles and practices, according to Tyack, has