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Hong, Won-Pyo; Youngs, Peter – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2008
This article draws on research from Texas and Chicago to examine whether highstakes testing enables low-income and racial minority students to acquire cultural capital. While students' performance on state or district tests rose after the implementation of high-stakes testing and accountability policies in Texas and Chicago in the 1990s, several…
Descriptors: Income, Dropout Rate, Testing, High Stakes Tests