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Title Confronting oppressive assessments : how parents, educators, and policymakers are rethinking current educational reforms / edited by Walter S. Polka and John McKenna
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

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Contents Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 215
Summary This book is about doing what's right for public education in the United States in this age of intensive curriculum convergence, planned instructional standardization, and oppressive accountability procedures. Information is presented about why and how educators, parents, students, community members, and policy-makers have decided to protest against current state and federal educational policies and procedures. The practical experiences of parents, teachers, principals, school superintendents, school board members, and professors are analyzed in chapters of this book. Their first-hand experien
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Public schools -- United States
Educational accountability -- Government policy -- United States
Educational change -- United States
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Educational change
Public schools
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Polka, Walter S., 1945- editor.
McKenna, John, 1963- editor.
LC no. 2016039892
ISBN 9781475826821
1475826826