High Stakes Poverty, Testing, and Failure in American Schools

Name: High Stakes Poverty, Testing, and Failure in American Schools
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ISBN: 9780742535329

ISBN-10: 0742535320

ISBN-13: 9780742535329

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Dale D. Johnson, Bonnie Johnson

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High Stakes is a critical ethnography of an underfunded public elementary school in this era of accountability and high stakes testing. The book was written during the year the authors served as third and fourth grade teachers, and it juxtaposes the experiences of mostly minority children of poverty and their teachers with an examination of high stakes testing policies and the loss of a comprehensive education to political dictates.

Book details

List price: $27.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Realities of an Underfunded School



September: The Children We Teach



October: Regulating Teaching



November: Drugs, Poverty, and Test Scores



December: "Clamp Down"



January: Test Preparation-The Pace Quickens



February: Pep Rallies for Tests



March: Test-Day Traumas



April: Freedom to Teach and Learn



May: "I Don't Want to Spend My Time on Paperwork"



How Can We Build a Better Future? Recommendations for Policy Change



Today a Nation of Testing


Epilogue


References


Index


About the Authors