Testing Education
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charter schools
child development harm
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classroom creativity loss
classroom culture shifts
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community of learners
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corporate influence in schools
corporate takeover
critical look at testing culture
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dignity of teaching
education policy critique
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educational testing
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firsthand teacher perspective
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lessons from four decades
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public school challenges
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rebuilding trust in schools
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rethinking student assessment
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schools as democratic spaces
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stories from the classroom
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teaching under pressure
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Product details
- ISBN 9781625347848
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Apr 2024
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, the American public education system has been fundamentally changed. Excessive testing, standardized curriculums, destructive demands on children, corporate-style evaluations, and top-down mandates have become the norm. In response, record numbers of demoralized educators have quit, and millions of students have been left educationally impoverished. This troubling transformation has been exhaustively critiqued by scholars and commentators. Yet one crucial voice has been missing.
In Testing Education, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher’s point of view. Based on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education.
Kathy Greeley is a retired educator from Cambridge and Boston public schools.
