edited by Laura Hamilton, Brian Stecher and Stephen Klein, RAND
2002
Three RAND scholars (Laura Hamilton, Brian Stecher and Stephen Klein) edited this 170-page book, containing six papers, some written by the editors, some written or co-authored by Dan Koretz, Vi-Nhuan Le and Lorraine McDonnell. Funded by the National Science Foundation and based on a pair of RAND-organized conferences, the book is fairly dense for the "educators and policy makers" at whom it is directed and far more successful at raising issues, illustrating dilemmas and posing problems than at giving specific guidance to anybody. Its general advice, however, seems sound if mostly obvious. Its main conclusions: accountability is not a monolithic thing, and the specific details of an accountability regimen matter greatly. And (surprise) more research is needed. The ISBN is 0833031619. You can learn more at http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1554/.
