|
|
Stop High-Stakes Testing: An Appeal to America’s Consciencereviewed by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley - May 07, 2008 Title: Stop High-Stakes Testing: An Appeal to America’s Conscience Author(s): Dale D. Johnson, Bonnie Johnson, Stephen J. Farenga, and Daniel Ness Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham ISBN: 0742559386, Pages: 178, Year: 2007 Search for book at Amazon.com Stop High-Stakes Testing: An Appeal to Americas Conscience is, as the title suggests, an appeal to readers to do whatever they can to stop high-stakes testing. But it is more specifically an appeal to readers, including politicians and policy makers, to address the very real, historically situated, socio-political problems that inhibit student learning. In my opinion, a title which more effectively captures its essence might be The Call for a Renewed War on Poverty: Why Marginalized Students in Americas Public Schools Fail High-Stakes Tests.
The best parts of the book include the following: Chapter 2 Chronic Racism in which Johnson, Johnson, Farenga and Ness provide an historical and well-grounded account of the roots of racism from slavery through the modern day school house; Chapter 3 The Excluded Class: Poverty, Race, and Social Class in which the authors explore the very real disparities between the poor and rich and... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
|
|
|
- Audrey Amrein-Beardsley
Arizona State University E-mail Author AUDREY AMREIN-BEARDSLEY is an Assistant Professor in the College of Teacher Education and Leadership at Arizona State University. Her research interests include educational policy, research methods, and educational assessments and high-stakes tests. Her most recent publications include Methodological Concerns about the Education Value-Added Analysis System in the March 2008 issue of Educational Researcher and “This is Jeopardy: Stronger Accountability and the Assault on America’s Public Schools,” to be published in summer 2008 in The School Administrator.
|
|
|
|
|