High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education

By David Hursh

Book Overview

Argues that education in the States and Britain has been radically transformed, through efforts to create curricular standards, and through an emphasis on accountability measured by standardized tests, and efforts to introduce market competition and private services into educational systems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007CLWBIY
• ISBN13: 9780742561496
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.4"