This Is Not A Test
A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Educational Theory, Evaluation, Testing & Measurement, Teaching, Teaching Methods
| Author: | José Vilson, Pedro Noguera | ISBN: | 9781608464289 |
| Publisher: | Haymarket Books | Publication: | May 5, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Haymarket Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | José Vilson, Pedro Noguera |
| ISBN: | 9781608464289 |
| Publisher: | Haymarket Books |
| Publication: | May 5, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Haymarket Books |
| Language: | English |
The conversation about turning around failing schools is in the national spotlight, and that spotlight is often focused on schools that black and brown children attend. Certain proposals to improve urban schools generate lots of headlines: expanding charter schools, funding school vouchers, using student test scores to evaluate, promote and pay teachers. But race is seldom considered as a tool for remedying educational woes.
In public schools across the country, students are spending more and more time taking standardized tests--at a cost of untold millions of dollars at a time when schools have been starved of scarce resources. But parents, students and teachers are organizing to resist the testing frenzy.
Our schools remain segregated and bastions of poverty because of economic and social policies that for centuries have prevented adequate access to equal resources. As the nation looks to raise test scores, we should also look carefully at what role teachers have on children’s views of themselves and their communities.
The conversation about turning around failing schools is in the national spotlight, and that spotlight is often focused on schools that black and brown children attend. Certain proposals to improve urban schools generate lots of headlines: expanding charter schools, funding school vouchers, using student test scores to evaluate, promote and pay teachers. But race is seldom considered as a tool for remedying educational woes.
In public schools across the country, students are spending more and more time taking standardized tests--at a cost of untold millions of dollars at a time when schools have been starved of scarce resources. But parents, students and teachers are organizing to resist the testing frenzy.
Our schools remain segregated and bastions of poverty because of economic and social policies that for centuries have prevented adequate access to equal resources. As the nation looks to raise test scores, we should also look carefully at what role teachers have on children’s views of themselves and their communities.
