ERIC Number: EJ619576
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2000
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Predictable Losers in Testing Schemes.
Sacks, Peter
School Administrator, v57 n11 p6,8-9 Dec 2000
For 2 decades, policymakers have pretended that bureaucratic, state-imposed standards, testing, and sanctions will fundamentally raise all schoolchildren's academic achievement and create productive citizens. The losers have been children of the poor, working class, and undereducated. Policymakers are holding schools and children accountable for social inequities. (MLH)
Descriptors: Accountability, Costs, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, High Stakes Tests, Instructional Effectiveness, Measurement, Middle Class, Minority Groups, Poverty, Predictor Variables, School Responsibility, Scores, Social Problems, Standardized Tests, Test Use, Testing Problems, Working Class
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Iowa Tests of Basic Skills
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