The infrastructure of accountability: data use and the transformation of American education

Introduction : mapping the information infrastructure accountability / Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, Stacey A. Rutledge, and Rebecca Jacobsen

Building the infrastructure of accountability

The paradoxes of data-driven school reform : learning from two generations of centralized accountability systems in the United States / Heinrich Mintrop and Gail L. Sunderman

Trust and numbers : constructing and contesting statewide student information systems / Dorothea Anagnostopoulos and Juanita Bautista-Guerra

The accidental revolution : teacher accountability, value-added, and the shifting balance of power in the American school system / Chris Thorn and Douglas N. Harris

Money and measures : the role of foundations in knowledge production / Janelle Scott and Huriya Jabbar

The infrastructure of accountability in districts, schools, and classrooms

Governing with data : the role of independent review panels in urban districts / Kenneth K. Wong

"The numbers speak for themselves" : data use and the organization of schooling in two Florida elementary schools / Stacey A. Rutledge and Brenda Gale Neal

New data, old patterns : the role of test scores in student assignment / Lora Cohen-Vogel, La'Tara Osborne-Lampkin, and Eric A. Houck

What makes a "good" school? : data and competing discourses in a multilingual charter network / Lisa M. Dorner and Angela B. Layton

Technologies for education and technologies for learners : how information technologies are (and should be) changing schools / Richard Halverson and R. Benjamin Shapiro

The infrastructure of accountability and the public good

A tale of two tests : test scores, accountability, and inequality in American education / Jennifer Jennings and Heeju Sohn

Do good grades matter? : public accountability data and perceptions of school quality / Rebecca Jacobsen and Andrew Saultz

Conclusion : the infrastructure of accountability : tensions, implications, and concluding thoughts / Stacey A. Rutledge, Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, and Rebecca Jacobsen.