Raising standards or raising barriers? : inequality and high-stakes testing in public education
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Raising standards or raising barriers? : inequality and high-stakes testing in public education
（A Century Foundation book）（Civil rights in a new era）
Century Foundation Press, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-236) and index
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More and more US states require students to pass large-scale tests as a condition of promotion or graduation. This volume, commissioned by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, examines the economic and educational assumptions underlying the call for these high-stake tests.
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More and more states require students to pass large-scale tests as a condition of promotion or graduation. What are the forces that have pushed high-stakes testing to the forefront of K-12 educational policy? Are such tests the best way to gauge educational attainment? This volume, commissioned by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, examines the economic and educational assumptions underlying the call for high-stakes tests.
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