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ERIC Number: EJ636401
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2001
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Radical Dilemmas in the Anti-High-Stakes-Testing Movement.
Fox, Dennis
Radical Teacher, n61 p28-35 Sum 2001
Suggests that the most dangerous component of President Bush's education plan is the imposition of high-stakes standardized testing on public school students, describing the country's national anti-testing movement and highlighting the movement against the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, which is led by such groups as the Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education and New Democracy. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Activism, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests, Politics of Education, Public Schools, Standardized Tests, State Standards
Center for Critical Education, Inc., P.O. Box 382616, Cambridge, MA 02238-2616. Web site: http://www.wpunj.edu/radteach.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
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