Stop High-Stakes Testing - An Appeal to America''s Conscience

Klappentext Stop High-Stakes Testing: An Appeal to America's Conscience is a compelling indictment of the use of high-stakes assessments with punitive consequences in our public schools. The authors trace the history of the policy and document the inequities for children of poverty that undergird high-stakes testing practices. Lack of dental and medical care! environmental violence! insufficient school funding! racism! and classism all factors that contribute to this dire situation are discussed in depth. The authors make a convincing case for discontinuing the unjust testing that has been forced on our nation's public school children. Zusammenfassung An indictment of the use of high-stakes assessments with punitive consequences in our public schools. This book traces the history of the policy and document the inequities for children of poverty that undergird high-stakes testing practices.

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• Authors: Stephen J. Farenga, Steve Farenga, Bonnie Johnson, Dale Johnson, Dale D. Johnson, Dale D./ Johnson Johnson, Dale Johnson Johnson, Daniel Ness
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2007
• EAN: 9780742559370
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5937-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system