Test Driven: High-Stakes Accountability in Elementary Schools - Softcover

Valli, Linda; Croninger, Robert G.; Chambliss, Marilyn H.; Graeber, Anna O.; Buese, Daria

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9780807748947: Test Driven: High-Stakes Accountability in Elementary Schools

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ISBN 10: 0807748943 ISBN 13: 9780807748947

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2008

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“I don’t always know (students) by face; I know them by data,” an elementary curriculum specialist explains ruefully in this broad examination of how No Child Left Behind impacts schools and shapes teaching practice. Capturing the changes teachers are experiencing, especially in the areas of mathematics and reading, the authors compare and contrast three schools with diverse student populations, examining how they differ in school norms and structures, professional roles and responsibilities, curriculum, staff development, and teaching and learning.

Including rich observational data and personal accounts from educators, this inside look at school reform:

Analyzes the effects of policies from multiple levels, examining relationships among initiatives at the federal, state, district, and local school levels.
Focuses on the impact that high-stakes testing policies have on reading and mathematics instruction in 4th and 5th grades
Provides teacher and principal perspectives on factors that influence how practitioners make sense of, mediate, and construct school policy.

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Book Description:

“A must-read for anyone who cares about the quality of teaching offered to children, especially those who are most vulnerable.”
—
Christine Sleeter
, California State University Monterey Bay

“School leaders, researchers, parents, and policymakers will benefit from reading this volume.”
—
William F. Tate
IV, Washington University in St. Louis

“Offers detailed accounts of the emphasis on standardized testing, deprofessionalization of teachers, and negative consequences for unrealistic expectations—a story that has emerged in the public press over the past few years, but this work brings the story down to the classroom level.”
—
Robert Calfee
, Stanford University

“This is a well-documented and persuasive account of the undue negative impact of performance-based reform as embodied in No Child Left Behind ....a timely, must-read book for every policymaker, administrator, teacher, and advocate.”
—
Angela Valenzuela
, University of Texas at Austin

From the Author:

Linda Valli is the inaugural Jeffrey and David Mullan Professor in Teacher Education Professional Development at the University of Maryland. Robert G. Croninger is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. Marilyn J. Chambliss is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. Anna O. Graeber is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Maryland. Daria Buese is Assistant Professor at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland.

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