De-testing and de-grading schools : authentic alternatives to accountability and standardization /
"A century of education and education reform, along with more than three decades of high-stakes testing and accountability, reveals a disturbing paradox: education has a steadfast commitment to testing and grading. This commitment persists despite ample research, theory, and philosophy revealin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Series: | Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ;
v. 492. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : an unexamined pedagogy harms / Rick Wormeli
- NCLB's lost decade for educational progress : what can we learn from this policy failure? / Lisa Guisbond with Monty Neill and Bob Schaeffer
- Assessment and quality : policy-steering and the making of a deus ex machina / Fernando F. Padró, Michael F. Hawke, and Laurie M. Hawke
- Technocratic groupthink inflates the testing bubble / Anthony Cody
- America's obsessive-assessment disorder / Lawrence Baines and Rhonda Goolsby-Smith
- Solidarity and critical dialogue : interrupting the degradation of teacher preparation / Julie A. Gorlewski and David A. Gorlewski
- Feeding the world = Reading the world : let them eat tests / Morna McDermott
- Bubble in B for boredom / Richard Mora
- Reconciling student outcomes and community self-reliance in modern school reform contexts / Brian R. Beabout and Andre M. Perry
- The role of assessment in empowering/disempowering students in the critical pedagogy classroom / David L. Bolton and John M. Elmore
- "How long does this have to be?" : confronting the standardization of writing instruction with teachers in National Writing Project invitational summer institutes / Christian Z. Goering
- Telling time with a broken clock : moving beyong standardized teating / Joe Bower
- The grading mousetrap : narcissism, abjection, and the politics of self-harm / John L. Hoben
- Leadership denied : principal as compliance officer / Arnold Dodge, Ruth Powers Silverberg, and Katie Zahedi
- Journey into ungrading / Hadley J. Ferguson
- An oath to stop degrading students : a story of de-grading an elementary classroom / Jennifer Magee and Mark Dziedzic
- De-grading writing instruction : closing the "considerable gap" / P. L. Thomas
- One week, many thoughts / Brian Rhode
- Striving toward authentic teaching for social justice : additional considerations / Lisa William-White
- Conclusion : yes, to be clear, I am anti-testing, anti-grading / P. L. Thomas.