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New Testing Scandals and Novice Teachers by Jonna Perrillo — February 22, 2013Testing scandals to date have raised questions about the pressures struggling schools face. Yet there is a related factor that allows corruption to flourish and that few discuss: the near-constant partnering of the nation’s most vulnerable students with the nation’s most vulnerable teachers. This piece reveals how the concentration of impoverished ELL students and novice teachers in several schools in El Paso, Texas contributed to the nation’s latest and most tragic testing scandal, and it outlines what reforms are required nationally. To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Jonna Perrillo
University of Texas at El Paso
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JONNA PERRILLO is assistant professor of English Education at the University of Texas at El Paso and recipient of the AERA New Scholar's Book Award 2012 for Uncivil Rights: Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity.
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