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Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association
How did standardized tests become the measure of performance in our public schools? In this compelling work, Mark J. Garrison attempts to answer this question by analyzing the development of standardized testing, from the days of Horace Mann and Alfred Binet to the current scene. Approaching the issue from a sociohistorical perspective, the author demonstrates the ways standardized testing has been used to serve the interests of the governing class by attaching a performance-based value to people and upholding inequality in American society. The book also discusses the implications that a restructuring of standardized testing would have on the future of education, specifically what it could do to eliminate the measure of individual worth based on performance.
Editions of A Measure of Failure
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781438427775
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781438427782
- PDF
- ISBN 9781438427850
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Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association
How did standardized tests become the measure of performance in our public schools? In this compelling work, Mark J. Garrison attempts to answer this question by analyzing the development of standardized testing, from the days of Horace Mann and Alfred Binet to the current scene. Approaching the issue from a sociohistorical perspective, the author demonstrates the ways standardized testing has been used to serve the interests of the governing class by attaching a performance-based value to people and upholding inequality in American society. The book also discusses the implications that a restructuring of standardized testing would have on the future of education, specifically what it could do to eliminate the measure of individual worth based on performance.
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Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association
How did standardized tests become the measure of performance in our public schools? In this compelling work, Mark J. Garrison attempts to answer this question by analyzing the development of standardized testing, from the days of Horace Mann and Alfred Binet to the current scene. Approaching the issue from a sociohistorical perspective, the author demonstrates the ways standardized testing has been used to serve the interests of the governing class by attaching a performance-based value to people and upholding inequality in American society. The book also discusses the implications that a restructuring of standardized testing would have on the future of education, specifically what it could do to eliminate the measure of individual worth based on performance.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in A Measure of Failure?
Society and Social Sciences > Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy
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You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781438427775
How long is A Measure of Failure and how many pages does it have?
A Measure of Failure has 152 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book A Measure of Failure?
Mark J. Garrison
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A Measure of Failure is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781438427775) and paperback(ISBN 9781438427782) and pdf(ISBN 9781438427850)
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