High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education by David W. Hursh

From the Publisher

This book examines the changes in educational policy in the United States and Britain over the last twenty-five years. David Hursh argues that education in the United States and Britain has been radically transformed, first through efforts to create curricular standards, more recently through an emphasis on accountability measured by standardized tests, and currently through efforts to introduce market competition and private services into educational systems. Hursh offers an alternative to the neoliberal conception of society and education complete with examples of parents who reject the current emphasis on individual success and schools that promote civic-mindedness.

About the Author:
David Hursh is associate professor of teaching and curriculum in the Warner Graduate School of Education at the University of Rochester

Product Details

• ISBN: 0742561496
  
• ISBN-13: 9780742561496
• Format: Textbook Paperback, 175pp
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Pub. Date: February 2008
• Edition Number: 1
• Sales Rank: 272,909
• Series: Critical Education Policy and Politics Ser.

• Table of Contents

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