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Raising Standards or Raising Barriers?: Inequality and High-Stakes Testing in Public Education Book

Raising Standards or Raising Barriers?: Inequality and High-Stakes Testing in Public Education
Raising Standards or Raising Barriers?: Inequality and High-Stakes Testing in Public Education, More and more states require students to pass large-scale tests as a condition of promotion or graduation. What are the forces that have pushed high-stakes testing to the forefront of K-12 educational policy? Are such tests the best way to gauge education, Raising Standards or Raising Barriers?: Inequality and High-Stakes Testing in Public Education has a rating of 4 stars
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  • Raising Standards or Raising Barriers?: Inequality and High-Stakes Testing in Public Education
  • Written by author Gary Orfield
  • Published by Century Foundation, The, June 2001
  • More and more states require students to pass large-scale tests as a condition of promotion or graduation. What are the forces that have pushed high-stakes testing to the forefront of K-12 educational policy? Are such tests the best way to gauge education
  • More and more states require students to pass large-scale tests as a condition of promotion or graduation. What are the forces that have pushed high-stakes testing to the forefront of K-12 educational policy? Are such tests the best way to gauge education
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Praface
1High-Stakes Testing Policies: Examining Their Assumptions and Consequences1
2The Development and Impact of High-Stakes Testing19
3High-Stakes Testing and Economic Productivity39
4The Impacts of Minimum Competency Exam Graduation Requirements on College Attendance and Early Labor Market Success of Disadvantaged Students51
5The Adverse Impact of High-Stakes Testing on Minority Students: Evidence from One Hundred Years of Test Data85
6Do High-Stakes Graduation Tests Improve Learning Outcomes? Using State-level NAEP Data to Evaluate the Effects of Mandatory Graduation Tests107
7The Harmful Impact of the TAAS System of Testing in Texas: Beneath the Accountability Rhetoric127
8Should We End Social Promotion? Truth and Consequences151
9High-Stakes Testing and Civil Rights: Standards of Appropriate Test Use and a Strategy for Enforcing Them179
Notes195
Index237
About the Contributors247


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