High-Stakes Schooling

High-Stakes Schooling
Author: Christopher Bjork
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 022630941X
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Drawing on Japan's experiences with testing, overtesting, and recent reforms to relax educational pressures, Christopher Bjork sheds light on the best path forward for US schools. He asks a variety of questions related to testing and reform, and each draws direct parallels to issues that the schools currently face.


High-Stakes Schooling
Language: en
Pages: 260

High-Stakes Schooling

Authors: Christopher Bjork
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Drawing on Japan's experiences with testing, overtesting, and recent reforms to relax educational pressures, Christopher Bjork sheds light on the best path forw
High Stakes Education
Language: en
Pages: 240

High Stakes Education

Authors: Pauline Lipman
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-02-29 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book analyses the ways in which schools in urban areas are shaped and influenced by social, economic and political forces within the social environment. Ut
High Stakes
Language: en
Pages: 351

High Stakes

Authors: Committee on Appropriate Test Use
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-12-30 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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Everyone is in favor of "high education standards" and "fair testing" of student achievement, but there is little agreement as to what these terms actually mean
Collateral Damage
Language: en
Pages: 242

Collateral Damage

Authors: Sharon L. Nichols
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-01 - Publisher: Harvard Education Press

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Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the Ame
Pencils Down
Language: en
Pages: 324

Pencils Down

Authors: Wayne Au
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Rethinking Schools

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This powerful collection from the groundbreaking Rethinking Schools magazine takes high-stakes standardized tests to task. Despite overwhelming evidence that th