Download or read book The New Accountability written by Martin Carnoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Standard-based accountability" has become a consistent buzzword emanating from the mouths of hopeful politicians-liberal and conservative-for almost twenty years. But does accountability work? The NewAccountability explores the current wave of assessment-based school accountability reforms, which combine two traditions in American education-public accountability and student testing.