Educational Leadership in an Age of Accountability

The Virginia Experience

Daniel L. Duke, Margaret Grogan, Pamela D. Tucker, Walter F. Heinecke, Daniel L. Duke, Margaret Grogan, Pamela D. Tucker, Walter F. Heinecke

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780791456767, 9780791456750
• eBook ISBN: 9780791487136
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Leadership in Education

Using Virginia as a case study, examines the role that educational leaders play in the implementation of statewide accountability plans.

The insistence by policymakers and politicians that educators be held accountable for student outcomes has resulted in dramatic shifts in the responsibilities of department chairs, principals, and superintendents. Educational Leadership in an Age of Accountability explores these changes in Virginia, following its implementation of an ambitious accountability plan that called for standards of learning, statewide high-stakes tests, standards of accreditation, and annual school performance report cards. This book examines factors such as the fate of students who fail state tests, achievement differences between black and white students, ethical issues surrounding accountability measures, and the increasing politicization of local schooling. Educational Leadership in an Age of Accountability shows that accountability pressure has done more than previous reforms to foster instructional leadership.

Table of contents

• EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN AN AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION by MARGARET GROGAN
• 1. U.S. SCHOOLS AND THE NEW STANDARDS AND ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE by WALTER F. HEINECKE, DANIEL E. CURRY-CORCORAN, AND TONYA R. MOON
• 2. THE EVOLUTION OF EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE OLD DOMINION by DANIEL L. DUKE AND BRIANNE L. RECK
• 3. INITIAL RESPONSES OF VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOLS TO THE ACCOUNTABILITY PLAN by DANIEL L. DUKE AND PAMELA D. TUCKER
• 4. THE PRINCIPALSHIP: RENEWED CALL FOR INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP by PAMELA D. TUCKER
• 5. A STUDY OF SUCCESSFUL TEACHERS PREPARING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR THE STANDARDS OF LEARNING TESTS IN VIRGINIA by MARGARET GROGAN AND PAMELA B. ROLAND
• 6. THE IMPACT OF VIRGINIA’S ACCOUNTABILITY PLAN ON HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS by DANIEL L. DUKE, DAN W. BUTIN, AND AMY SOFKA
• 7. HOW SUPERINTENDENTS IN VIRGINIA DEAL WITH ISSUES SURROUNDING THE BLACK-WHITE TEST-SCORE GAP by MARGARET GROGAN, AND WHITNEY H. SHERMAN
• 8. EDUCATORS’ ETHICAL CONCERNS ARISING FROM THE VIRGINIA ACCOUNTABILITY PLAN by PAMELA D. TUCKER AND MARGARET GROGAN
• 9. EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN AN AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY by DANIEL L. DUKE, MARGARET GROGAN, AND PAMELA D. TUCKER
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX