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Author Phelps, Richard

Title Kill the Messenger : the War on Standardized Testing
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Reveille-Prelude to Battle (Introduction); 1. The Battlefield (Testing Systems and Testing Interests); 2. Attack Strategies and Tactics; 3. Campaigns: The Big, Bad SAT; 4. Campaigns: Texas, the Early Years; 5. Campaigns: Texas, the Presidential Election Year 2000; 6. War Correspondence (Media Coverage of Testing); 7. The Fruits of Victory (Benefits of Testing); 8. The Spoils of War (Valid Concerns about Testing)
9. The Agony of Defeat (The Consequences of Losing the War: The Alternatives to Standardized Testing)Appendix-An Anti-Testing Vocabulary; Glossary; References; Index
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Form Electronic book
Author Phelps, Richard
Walberg, Herbert J
Walberg, Herbert
Stone, J. E
ISBN 9781351510196
1351510193