Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex: Understanding How Testing Perpetuates Inequity and Injustice in America

ISBN-13: 9780367407872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 138 str.

Michelle Tenam-Zemach; Daniel R. Conn; Paul T. Parkison

Opis

This book offers a critique of how the assessment industry and standardized testing adversely impact students, teachers, and society. The CoVid-19 pandemic, society’s racial unrest, and anti-testing movements have aligned to underscore the need to examine systemic oppression and the impact it has on society through our education system.

Spis treści

Foreword: Because We Know There is No Excuse for Doing Nothing;  Introduction: The Upside Down;   1. Introducing the Assessment Industrial Complex: How This Book Came to Be;   2.Testing and Society: How We Got to Where We Are;   3. Strange Bedfellows: How Test-Driven Accountability Became Common Sense;  4. Testing for Profit: Billionaire Boys' Club, EdReformers and All Matter of Money;   5. Students, Teachers, and Testing: An Existential Crisis in the Making;    6.A Path to Hope and Change: The Time is Now