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The Importance of Average: Playing the Game of School to Increase Success and Achievementreviewed by Sharon L. Nichols - December 21, 2010 Title: The Importance of Average: Playing the Game of School to Increase Success and Achievement Author(s): Stephen Farenga Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham ISBN: 0742570126, Pages: 224, Year: 2010 Search for book at Amazon.comTo view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Sharon Nichols
University of Texas at San Antonio E-mail Author SHARON L. NICHOLS is an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the past chair of the Adolescence and Youth Development Special Interest Group of AERA and is coauthor of two books including Collateral damage: How high-stakes testing corrupts America’s schools (with D. C. Berliner, Harvard Education Press, 2007) and America’s teenagers—myths and realities: Media images, schooling and the social costs of careless indifference (with T. L. Good, Erlbaum, 2004). Her current work focuses on the impact of test-based accountability on adolescent motivation and development.
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