Selected Standards Research and Readings

In this section, EdSource points you toward articles and reports that provide background and insight into standards-based reform theory, policy, and practice. The sources listed here have been selected for their relevance and credibility. To nominate additional articles or research for inclusion in this section, please e-mail us.

Most bibliographical references below link to an abstract written by EdSource to give you a sense of what the article covers. At the end of each abstract, whenever possible, we have included a link to the complete report or other contact information for obtaining it. Please come back to this section periodically to see new sources or abstracts that have been added.

To make this section easier to navigate, we have organized the material into the following categories:

Related EdSource Publications: publications by EdSource on this topic.
Research: primary research and literature reviews.
California Research: research and reports about education in California.
Selected Readings: explanatory reports, articles, and essays that have appeared on the web, in periodicals, or in publications by independent agencies.

Related EdSource Reports

Update: California's Education Reforms. EdSource, October 2002. ABSTRACT

The Civic Purposes of Public Schools. EdSource, April 2002. ABSTRACT

California's New Academic Standards Take Hold. EdSource, May 2001. ABSTRACT

Aligning California's Education Reforms: Progress Made and the Work That Remains. EdSource, January 2001. ABSTRACT

Research

Building Capacity for Education Reform. O’Day, J., Goertz, M.E., Floden, R.E. Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), RB-18, December 1995. ABSTRACT

Designing Coherent Education Policy: Improving the System. Fuhrman, S.H., ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1993.

Persistence and Change: Standards-Based Systemic Reform in Nine States. Massell, D., Kirst, M., Hoppe, M. Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), RB-21, March 1997. ABSTRACT

Standards and Accountability: Where the Public Stands. Johnson, J., Duffett, A. Public Agenda report for the 1999 National Education Summit, September 1999. ABSTRACT

State Strategies for Building Local Capacity: Addressing the Needs of Standards-Based Reform. Massell, D. Policy Brief, Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), 1998. ABSTRACT

California Research

State Standards-Setting and Public Deliberation: The Case of California. McDonnell, L., Weatherford, S. National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST), CSE Technical Report 506, 1999. To download, go to http://www.cse.ucla.edu/products/reports_set.htm and search for the report by author or title keywords.

Selected Readings

A Policymaker's Guide To Standards-Led Assessment. Linn, R.L., Herman, J.L. National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) and the Education Commission of the States (ECS), February 1997. ABSTRACT

High Standards for Whom? Gratz, D.B. Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 81, No. 9, May 2000. ABSTRACT

Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment. Black, P., Wiliam, D. Phi Delta Kappan, October 1998. ABSTRACT

Realizing the Promise of Standards-Based Education. Schmoker, M., Marzano, R.J. Educational Leadership, Vol. 56, No. 6, March 1999. ABSTRACT

The Civic Purposes of Public Schools. EdSource, April 2002. ABSTRACT

The Progress of Education Reform 1999-2001: Standards. Education Commission of the States (ECS), Vol. 1, No. 5, January-February 2000. ABSTRACT