This new edition of Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the
Standardization of Inequality critically examines the deep and
enduring problems within systems of education in the U.S., in order
to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and
communities negatively affected by such testing. Updates to the new
edition include new chapters that focus on: the role of schools and
standardized testing in reproducing social, cultural, and economic
inequalities; the way high-stakes testing is used to advance
neoliberal, market-based educational schemes that ultimately
concentrate wealth and power among elites; how standardized testing
became the dominant tool within our educational systems; the
numerous technical and ideological problems with using standardized
tests to evaluate students, teachers, and schools; the role that
high-stakes testing plays in the maintenance of white supremacy;
and how school communities have resisted high-stakes testing and
used better assessments of student learning. Parents, teachers,
university students, and scholars will find Unequal By Design
useful for gaining a broad, critical understanding of the issues
surrounding our over-reliance on high-stakes, standardized testing
in the U.S. through up-to-date research on testing, historical and
contemporary examples of the struggles over such tests, and
information about how testing has fostered the privatization of
public education in the U.S.
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