Chapter 1 1. The Book of Testing Chapter 2 2. The Chicken Wins: The History of Assessment Chapter 3 3. ETS and the American Dream Chapter 4 4. Fuzzy Math: Missing Tests, Missing Students, Missing the Mark Chapter 5 5. Drop Out or Pushed Out? Who's Counted Out in High Stakes Testing Chapter 6 6. English Language Learners in an Era of NCLB Chapter 7 7. Who is Being Left Behind? Chapter 8 8. Public Education and Privatization in the Ownership Society Chapter 9 9. Hawaii, the Fiftieth State: A Case Study of the Plantation Blues Chapter 10 10. The Modification of School Improvement and Staff Development Efforts in Response to the Failure to Make Adequate Yearly Progress Chapter 11 11. Unintended Consequences: The Teacher's Story Chapter 12 12. A Ray of Hope: Service Learning Insures Success for All
Todd Alan Price, Ph.D., is an assistant professor, Educational Foundations and Inquiry, National-Louis University. He has published several articles on No Child Left Behind, and produced a documentary, No Child Left Behind Report: Public Education in the Crosshairs. Elizabeth A. Peterson, Ed.D, is an associate professor in the Department of Adult Education at National-Louis University. She currently teaches doctoral and masters students of adult education.
This book shows how able and committed teachers who regard their
profession as a calling are tragically transformed into technocrats
fulfilling federal reform imperatives. This inside picture of the
terrible price teachers pay to work in the system imposed by NCLB
should be a call to action.
*Susan Ohanian, educator, activist, and author of "What Happened to
Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten?"*
Dr. Todd Alan Price and his colleagues contextualize the
contemporary state of American public education, drawing upon its
deep historical roots and philosophical underpinnings. This
framework enables the reader to understand the turmoil engendered
by current policy waves. These essays pose insightful questions
about whether we can build on our historical strengths to meet
modern-day challenges of the global era.
*Kathleen Sullivan-Brown, Executive Director of the Illinois
Education Research Council and Associate Professor of Educational
Leadership and Policy Studi*
Price and Peterson's volume should be required reading for policy
makers nationwide, as it asks important questions that need
answering before NCLB comes up for reauthorization. What is
intelligence and how should it be measured? Who benefits from
measuring intelligence in specific ways? How has NCLB impacted
students, teachers, administrators and communities? I am
particularly impressed with the historical and philosophical
analysis contained in the early chapters, and I am equally grateful
for the qualitative and quantitative work in the volume's later
half. In an increasingly standardized world, it's important to have
critical scholarship that approaches NCLB from multiple angles.
This is a must read for everyone concerned with the future of
public education and by default, our democratic republic. In an
ideal world, that would be everyone.
*Philip Kovacs, former high school English teacher, Assistant
Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and a
contributor to the Edu*
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