High Stakes - Poverty, Testing, and Failure in American Schools

Informationen zum Autor By Dale D. Johnson and Bonnie Johnson Klappentext High Stakes is a critical ethnography of an underfunded public elementary school in this era of accountability and high stakes testing. The book was written during the year the authors served as third and fourth grade teachers, and it juxtaposes the experiences of mostly minority children of poverty and their teachers with an examination of high stakes testing policies and the loss of a comprehensive education to political dictates. Zusammenfassung An ethnography of an underfunded public elementary school in the era of accountability and high stakes testing. This book juxtaposes the experiences of mostly minority children of poverty and their teachers with an examination of high stakes testing policies and the loss of a comprehensive education to political dictates.

Product details

• Authors: Bonnie Johnson, Dale D Johnson, Dale D. Johnson, Dale D. Johnson Johnson, Johnson Bonnie, Johnson Dale D.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2005
• EAN: 9780742535329
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-3532-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; USA, United States of America, USA, Primary & middle schools, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary