High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education
This book examines the changes in educational policy in the U.S. and Britain over the last twenty-five years. Hursh argues that education in the States and Britain has been radically transformed, first through efforts to create curricular standards, more recently through an emphasis on accountability measured by standardized tests, and currently, efforts to introduce market competition and private services into educational systems. Hursh offers an alternative to the neoliberal conception of society and education complete with examples of parents who reject the current emphasis on individual success and schools that promote civic-mindedness.
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High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education
This book examines the changes in educational policy in the U.S. and Britain over the last twenty-five years. Hursh argues that education in the States and Britain has been radically transformed, first through efforts to create curricular standards, more recently through an emphasis on accountability measured by standardized tests, and currently, efforts to introduce market competition and private services into educational systems. Hursh offers an alternative to the neoliberal conception of society and education complete with examples of parents who reject the current emphasis on individual success and schools that promote civic-mindedness.
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High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education

High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education

by David Hursh
High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education

High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education

by David Hursh

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This book examines the changes in educational policy in the U.S. and Britain over the last twenty-five years. Hursh argues that education in the States and Britain has been radically transformed, first through efforts to create curricular standards, more recently through an emphasis on accountability measured by standardized tests, and currently, efforts to introduce market competition and private services into educational systems. Hursh offers an alternative to the neoliberal conception of society and education complete with examples of parents who reject the current emphasis on individual success and schools that promote civic-mindedness.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780742561489
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 01/28/2008
Series: Critical Education Policy and Politics , #1
Pages: 186
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

David Hursh is associate professor of Teaching and Curriculum in the Warner Graduate School of Education at the University of Rochester.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Situating the personal in the political
Chapter 2 Demystifying education: Theorizing practice and practicing theory
Chapter 3 Years of struggle and hope
Chapter 4 Conflicting visions of schooling and teaching: The historical and political context
Chapter 5 The rise of high-stakes testing at the state and federal levels: New York, Texas and No Child Left Behind
Chapter 6 Chicago's Renaissance 2010: The reassertion of ruling-class power.
Chapter 7 Imagining the future: Alternatives to high-stakes testing and neoliberalism
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