Objectifying Measures The Dominance of High-Stakes Testing and the Politics of Schooling

Name: Objectifying Measures The Dominance of High-Stakes Testing and the Politics of Schooling
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ISBN: 9781592139064

ISBN-10: 159213906X

ISBN-13: 9781592139064

Edition: 2009

Authors: Amanda Walker Johnson

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In the past twenty years, the number of educational tests with high-stakes consequences-such as promotion to the next grade level or graduating from high school-has increased. At the same time, the difficulty of the tests has also increased. In Texas, a Latina state legislator introduced and lobbied for a bill that would take such factors as teacher recommendations, portfolios of student work, and grades into account for the students- usually students of colour-who failed such tests. The bill was defeated. Using several types of ethnographic study (personal interviews, observations of the Legislature in action, news broadcasts, public documents from the Legislature and Texas Education…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Introduction



Context



Statistical Objectification, Governmentality, and Race in High-stakes Testing



Commodification, Privatization, and Political Economy of Statistical Discourse



Statistical Objectification, Truth, and Hegemony



Between Women and the State of Texas: Representation and the Politics of Experience


Conclusion