Pencils Down: Rethinking High Stakes Testing and Accountability in Public Schools

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Pencils Down: Rethinking High Stakes Testing and Accountability in Public Schools

reviewed by Boni Thompson - March 01, 2013

Title: Pencils Down: Rethinking High Stakes Testing and Accountability in Public Schools
Author(s): Wayne Au & Melissa Bollow Tempel (eds.)
Publisher: Rethinking Schools, Milwaukee
ISBN: 094296151X, Pages: 360, Year: 2012
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Boni Thompson York University, Toronto E-mail Author BONI THOMPSON is an elementary teacher in Orangeville, Ontario and a recent PhD graduate from York University, Toronto. Her dissertation is entitled Goodness, promise and importance: Perspectives on cultivating democratic education in an age of accountability. She is currently engaged in several writing projects.

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