High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning

The Real Crisis in Education

AvDavid Hursh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-01-28
Mått:161 x 239 x 19 mm
Vikt:404 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Education Policy and Politics
Antal sidor:186
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780742561489

Utforska kategorier

Pedagogisk teori och filosofi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

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

Recensioner i media

In this unusual book, David Hursh combines rich recollections of classroom teaching with trenchant analysis of the "real crisis" in education today-the neoliberal package of high stakes testing, accountability, markets and privatization. The result is a deeply disturbing but compelling and original book that puts democratic education back where it should be—at the center of discussions about schools and schooling.

Innehållsförteckning

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