High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education (Critical Education Policy and Politics): 1 - Softcover

Hursh, David

 
9780742561496: High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education (Critical Education Policy and Politics): 1
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ISBN 10: 0742561496 ISBN 13: 9780742561496
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0742561496
ISBN 13 
9780742561496
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
186

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