Should the Curriculum Be Set by State Fiat? An Empirical Test Using Economics Courses in High School. Occasional Paper /

Should the Curriculum Be Set by State Fiat? [electronic resource] : An Empirical Test Using Economics Courses in High School. Occasional Paper / Clive R. Belfield.

This paper estimates the effects of state-imposed curriculum mandates on the test scores of public-school students who took the SAT in 2001. By 1998, 14 states had mandates that high-school students should take an economics course. For these states, the proportion of public-school students taking hi...

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Main Author: Belfield, C. R.
Corporate Author: National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2002.
Subjects:
Curriculum Evaluation.
Economics Education.
Educational Assessment.
Evaluation Research.
Government School Relationship.
High Schools.
Measurement.
Scores.
Secondary Education.
Secondary School Curriculum.
State Action.
State Standards.
Student Evaluation.
Test Content.
Test Score Decline.

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