High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education (Critical Education Policy and Politics)

Hursh, David

ISBN 10: 0742561496 / ISBN 13: 9780742561496

Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education (Critical Education Policy and Politics)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742561496
• ISBN 13: 9780742561496
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book examines the changes in educational policy in the U.S. and Britain over the last twenty-five years. Hursh argues that education in the States and Britain has been radically transformed, first through efforts to create curricular standards, more recently through an emphasis on accountability measured by standardized tests, and currently, efforts to introduce market competition and private services into educational systems. Hursh offers an alternative to the neoliberal conception of society and education complete with examples of parents who reject the current emphasis on individual success and schools that promote civic-mindedness.

About the Author

David Hursh is associate professor of Teaching and Curriculum in the Warner Graduate School of Education at the University of Rochester.