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USING STANDARDS AND HIGH-STAKES TESTING FOR STU...

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award
2012. This book overturns the typical conception of standards  empowering educators by
providing concrete examples of how top-down models of assessment can be embraced and used in
ways that are consistent with critical pedagogies. Although standards  as broad frameworks for
setting learning targets  are not necessarily problematic  when they are operationalized as
high-stakes assessments  test-based pedagogies emerge and frequently dominate the curriculum 
leaving little room for critical pedagogies. In addition  critics maintain that high-stakes
assessments perpetuate current class structures by maintaining skill gaps and controlling
ideology  particularly beliefs in individualism  meritocracy  and what counts as knowledge.
This book offers readers a deepened awareness of how educators can alleviate the effects of
standardization  especially for students in poor and working-class communities. As teachers
negotiate their roles in this time of increasing regulation and standardization  it is
essential to maintain and model a critical stance toward curriculum and instruction. Educators
know why this approach is vital: This book illustrates how to make it happen.

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