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Tables of Contents for Failing Our Kids
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Testing Craze: An Overview
Failing Our Kids: An Introduction
8
2
Kathy Swope
Barbara Miner
Standardized Tests: Common Questions, an Interview with Kathy Swope
10
3
A Harsh Agenda
13
1
Paul Wellstone
Why Standardized Tests Are Bad
14
3
Terry Meier
Origins of the Latest Testing Craze
17
1
Barbara Miner
At Best, Silly, At Worst, Racist
18
2
Derrick Z. Jackson
Welcome to Measurement, Inc.
20
4
David Glovin
Parents and Students Talk Back
MCAS Test Draws Fire
24
2
Jackie Dee King
`No' Is the Right Answer
26
2
Eleanor Martin
Chicago's Flunking Policy Gets an `F'
28
2
Julie Woestehoff
Students Say, `Enough!'
30
2
Will Tanzman et al
Testing Slights Multiculturalism
32
1
Makani Themba-Nixon
We Object
33
1
Steve Cohen
My Daughter, Child #008458743
34
1
Jeff Zorn
The Rights of Parents, by The Center for Law and Education
35
1
What You Can Do
36
2
Barbara Miner
Views from the Classroom
Dancin' Circles
38
3
Daniel Ferri
Ban Early Childhood Testing
41
1
Bob Peterson
The Straitjacket of Standardized Tests
42
3
Tom McKenna
Curiouser and Curiouser
45
1
Linda Darling Hammond
Tests from Hell
46
2
Bill Bigelow
`High-Stakes' Harm
48
4
Linda Christensen
Teaching about Testing
52
2
Bill Bigelow
One Size Fits Few
54
4
Susan Ohanian
Testing and Students with Disabilities, from The Center for Law and Education
58
2
A Grim Fairy Tale
60
2
Cynthia Ellwood
David Levine
Changing Ethics
62
2
Peter Sacks
Standards, Testing, and Race
Standards: Decoy or Quality Control?
64
6
Asa Hilliard
Pencils Out!
70
2
Derrick Z. Jackson
Our Nation's Past
72
2
Derrick Z. Jackson
Testing Unequal Impact
74
2
Gary Orfield
Johanna Wald
The Forgotten History of Eugenics
76
5
Alan Stoskopf
An Untold Story of Resistance
81
6
Alan Stoskopf
Standards and Multiculturalism
87
6
Bill Bigelow
Standards and the Control of Knowledge
93
3
Harold Berlak
Alternatives to Standardized Testing
Alternatives to Standardized Tests
96
6
Bob Peterson
Monty Neill
What is the Purpose of Assessment?
102
2
Monty Neill
Alternative Assessment, by The Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education
104
2
Their Report Card - and Ours, by Portland Area Rethinking Schools
106
2
Alternatives to Grade Retention
108
4
Linda Darling-Hammond
Assumptions Behind Assessments
112
2
Mary Diez
Policy and Background
Testing: Full Speed Ahead
114
4
Barbara Miner
Responding to Test-Driven Reform
118
1
Barbara Miner
The Jobs of Tomorrow
119
1
Barbara Miner
The Educational Costs of Standardization
120
6
Linda McNeil
Racial Bias Built into Texas Test, From the Fair Test Examiner
126
1
Testing Corporations
127
1
Barbara Miner
Why Business Likes More Testing
128
2
Arthur MacEwan
Is There Value in Value-Added Testing?
130
6
Bob Peterson
A Vision of School Reform, by the Editors of Rethinking Schools
136
4
Resources
A Glossary of Useful Terms
140
1
Resources on Standards and Assessment
141