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High Stakes: Poverty, Testing and Failure in American Schools (Second Edition)

reviewed by Holly Yettick - April 19, 2006

Title: High Stakes: Poverty, Testing and Failure in American Schools (Second Edition)
Author(s): Dale D. Johnson and Bonnie Johnson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
ISBN: 0742535320, Pages: 257, Year: 2006
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Spiders the sizes of silver dollars scuttle across the floors. Holes in the walls admit ant parades and the occasional daring rat. The only playground equipment is for the preschoolers, and the only faucet that emits hot running water is in the teacher’s lounge. Yet consultants driving fancy cars provide thousands of dollars worth of test-preparation software in a school with no library. That is the grim reality that greets University of Wisconsin professors Dale and Bonnie Johnson in the summer of 2000 when they arrive at an impoverished Louisiana elementary school. The husband-wife team had taken a year-long, unpaid leave from the University of Louisiana at Monroe to teach third and fourth graders at the school they call Redbud Elementary. They wanted to “refresh” themselves “with real-life teaching experience” (p. xvii). They also wanted to “see firsthand the effects of the accountability movement on life in school” (p. xvii). In... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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