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Unequal by Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality (Critical Social Thought) by Wayne Au, 1972- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This new edition of __Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality__ critically examines the deep and enduring problems within systems of education in the U.S., in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by such testing. Updates to the new edition include new chapters that focus on: the role of schools and standardized testing in reproducing social, cultural, and economic inequalities; the way high-stakes testing is used to advance neoliberal, market-based educational schemes that ultimately concentrate wealth and power among elites; how standardized testing became the dominant tool within our educational systems; the numerous technical and ideological problems with using standardized tests to evaluate students, teachers, and schools; the role that high-stakes testing plays in the maintenance of white supremacy; and how school communities have resisted high-stakes testing and used better assessments of student learning. Parents, teachers, university students, and scholars will find __Unequal By Design__ useful for gaining a broad, critical understanding of the issues surrounding our over

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Author

Wayne Au, 1972-

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780367437039

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Social Science, Science