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ERIC Number: EJ640866
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
Accountability Shovedown: Resisting the Standards Movement in Early Childhood Education.
Hatch, J. Amos
Phi Delta Kappan, v83 n6 p457-62 Feb 2002
Identifies and discusses several reasons why the proliferation of standards for early childhood education is harmful to children and teachers: Pressure on children and teachers, narrowing of experience, accountability as punishment, teacher deprofessionalization, performance over learning, individual devaluation, corporate mentality. (Contains 34 references.) (PKP)
Descriptors: Accountability, Children, Diversity (Student), Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Individual Characteristics, Learning, Performance, State Standards, Teachers
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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