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Raising Standards or Raising Barriers?: Inequality and High Stakes Testing in Public Education

By Mindy Kornhaber , Gary Orfield

Book information

Publisher
Century Foundation Press
Year
2001
ISBN
087078451X, 9780870784514
Open Library ID
OL11105461M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (15057900 bytes)
Pages
280\133
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

More and more states require students to pass large-scale tests as a condition of promotion or graduation. What are the forces that have pushed high-stakes testing to the forefront of K-12 educational policy? Are such tests the best way to gauge educational attainment? This volume, commissioned by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, examines the economic and educational assumptions underlying the call for high-stakes tests. Contributors include Jay Heubert, Teachers College, Columbia University; Gary Natriello, Teachers College, Columbia University, and Aaron Pallas, Michigan State University - East Lansing; John Bishop, Cornell University, and Ferran Mane, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-Spain; George Madaus and Marguerite Clarke, Boston College; Robert Hauser, University of Wisconsin; Monty Neill, FairTest (Cambridge, MA) with Keith Gaylor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Henry Levin, Stanford University; Linda McNeil, Rice University; and Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas at Austin.

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