Elizabeth (Hrsg.) Peterson

The Myth and Reality of No Child Left Behind

Public Education and High Stakes Assessment

Buch

Students of education are aware of the story of public education, of legendary figures like Horace Mann riding from district to district trying to improve the American school by establishing a common school fund and developing teacher-training programs. Those who followed worked hard to broaden the mission and refine the institution. While advancing the distribution of textbooks, developing curriculum materials and employing testing tools, even as early as 1845, standardized testing was used to see if it all worked. Advocates used the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 to make accessible to all an education of worth for soc… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Price, Todd Alan (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-7618-4314-6
EAN: 9780761843146
Produktnummer: 4315088
Verlag: University Press Of America
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 172 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 259 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 259

Über den Autor

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.