Stop High-Stakes Testing: An Appeal to America's Conscience

By Dale D. Johnson, Bonnie Johnson, Steve J. Farenga, et al.

Stop High-Stakes Testing: An Appeal to America's Conscience is a compelling indictment of the use of high-stakes assessments with punitive consequences in our public schools. The authors trace the history of the policy and document the inequities for children of poverty that undergird high-stakes testing practices. Lack of dental and medical care, environmental violence, insufficient school funding, racism, and classism-all factors that contribute to this dire situation-are discussed in depth. The authors make a convincing case for discontinuing the unjust testing that has been forced on our nation's public school children.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742559386
• ISBN13: 9780742559387
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"