De-testing and de-grading schools : authentic alternatives to accountability and standardization / edited by Joe Bower and P.L. Thomas ; introductions and chapter by Alfie Kohn.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Peter Lang, [2013]
Description
x, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    • Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; 451. [More in this series]
    • Counterpoints: studies in the postmodern theory of education, 1058-1634 ; vol. 451
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Introduction: The roots of grades-and-tests / Alfie Kohn
    • Pt. I. Degrading learning, detesting education: the failure of high-stakes accountability in education : NCLB's lost decade for educational progress: what can we learn from this policy failure? / Lisa Guisbond with Monty Neill and Bob Schaeffer ; High-stakes testing assessment: the deus ex machina of quality in education / Fernando F. Padró ; Technocratic groupthink inflates the testing bubble / Anthony Cody ; Mean scores in a mean world / Lawrence Baines and Rhonda Goolsby ; De-grading literacy: how New York State tests knowledge, culture, and critical thinking / Julie A. Gorlewski and David A. Gorlewski ; The corporate model of schooling: how high stakes testing dehumanizes education / Morna McDermott ; Standardized testing and boredom at an urban middle school / Richard Mora ; Reconciling student outcomes and community self-reliance in modern school reform contexts / Brian R. Beabout and Andre M. Perry ; The role of assessment in empowering/disempowering students in the critical pedagogy classroom / David L. Bolton and John M. Elmore
    • Pt. II. De-grading and de-testing in a time of high-stakes education reform : The case against grades / Alfie Kohn ; Reduced to numbers: from concealing to revealing learning / Joe Bower ; Outside the wounding machine: grading and the motive for metaphor / John Hoben ; No testing week: focusing on creativity in the classroom / Peter DeWitt ; Journey into ungrading / Hadley J. Ferguson ; Moving beyond "parents just want to know the grade!" / Jim Webber and Maja Wilson ; De-grading writing instruction in a time of high-stakes testing: the power of feedback in workshop / P. L. Thomas ; One week, many thoughts / Brian Rhode ; Conclusion: Striving toward authentic teaching for social justice / Lisa William-White.
    ISBN
    • 9781433122408 ((hardcover : alk. paper))
    • 1433122405 ((hardcover : alk. paper))
    • 9781433122392 ((pbk.))
    • 1433122391 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2013003336
    OCLC
    841199075
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