| Record ID: |
3131930 |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
x, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Date acquired: |
June 13, 2014
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| More creator details: |
edited by Joe Bower and P.L. Thomas ; introductions and chapter by Alfie Kohn. |
| Series statement: |
Counterpoints: studies in the postmodern theory of education, vol. 451 |
| Series title: |
Counterpoints: studies in the postmodern theory of education, |
| Contents note: |
The roots of grades-and-tests / Al; fie Kohn -- pt. I. Degrading learning, detesting education: the failure of high-stakes accountability in education. NCLB's lost decade for educational progress: what can we learn from this policy failure? / Lisa Guisbond with Monty Neill and Bob Schaeffer -- High-stakes testing assessment: the deus ex machina of quality in education / Fernando F. Padró -- Technocratic groupthink inflates the testing bubble / Anthony Cody -- Mean scores in a mean world / Lawrence Baines and Rhonda Goolsby -- De-grading literacy: how New York State tests knowledge, culture, and critical thinking / Julie A. Gorlewski and David A. Gorlewski -- The corporate model of schooling: how high stakes testing dehumanizes education / Morna McDermott -- Standardized testing and boredom at an urban middle school / Richard Mora -- Reconciling student outcomes and community self-reliance in modern school reform contexts / Brian R. Beabout and Andre M. Perry -- The role of assessment in empowering/disempowering students in the critical pedagogy classroom / David L. Bolton and John M. Elmore -- pt. II. De-grading and de-testing in a time of high-stakes education reform. The case against grades / Alfie Kohn -- Reduced to numbers: from concealing to revealing learning / Joe Bower -- Outside the wounding machine: grading and the motive for metaphor / John Hoben -- No testing week: focusing on creativity in the classroom / Peter DeWitt -- Journey into ungrading / Hadley J. Ferguson -- Moving beyond "parents just want to know the grade!" / Jim Webber and Maja Wilson -- De-grading writing instruction in a time of high-stakes testing: the power of feedback in workshop / P. L. Thomas -- One week, many thoughts / Brian Rhode -- Striving toward authentic teaching for social justice / Lisa William-White. |
| Contributor: |
Bower, Joe, editor of compilation.
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| Contributor: |
Thomas, P. L. (Paul Lee), 1961- editor of compilation.
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