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The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing - How They Affect Students, Their Parents, Teachers, Principals, Schools, and Society (Paperback, New)
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The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing - How They Affect Students, Their Parents, Teachers, Principals, Schools, and Society (Paperback, New)
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The book's goal is to clarify for parents, the public, and policy
makers what high stakes tests are and how their use affects our
schools, children, and society. It explores the various uses,
limitations, and paradoxical consequences of high stakes testing.
The present context of testing and the reauthorization of No Child
Left Behind make the proposed book timely and important. Current
testing programs provide valuable information to teachers, parents,
and policy-makers about students, schools, and school systems. But
paradoxically, these programs have unintended yet predictable
negative consequences for many students, teachers, and schools. It
is essential that the public and policy-makers understand the scope
and impacts that result from the inherent paradoxical nature of
high-stakes testing. Testing is viewed by policy makers across
party lines as an ""objective"" measure of student attainment and
has become their tool of choice to drive educational ""reform"" and
hold children, teachers, schools, and districts accountable.
Bipartisan support for test-based accountability is firm. For
example, on January of 2005 President Bush called on Congress to
extend NCLB testing in math and science to freshmen, sophomores and
juniors citing poor performance among high school students as a
""warning and a call to action."" (NYT 01/ 13/05) Senator Kennedy,
a critic of the President, nonetheless supported the President's
proposed high school testing provisions.
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