Stop High-Stakes Testing: An Appeal to America's Conscience
by Dale Johnson
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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 show more depth. The authors make a convincing case for discontinuing the unjust testing that has been forced on our nation's public school children. show lessTags
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- 371.26 — Society, government, & culture Education Schools and their activities; special education School organization; School records Assessment
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- LB3051 .S856 — Education Theory and practice of education Theory and practice of education School administration and organization School management and discipline Educational tests, measurements, evaluations
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