Testing education : a teacher's memoir / Kathy Greeley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greeley, Kathy, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational tests and measurements--United States.

Educational tests and measurements.

Education--Standards--United States.

Education.

Education--Curricula--United States.

Public schools--United States.

Public schools.

Education--Curricula.

Education--Standards.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 381 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Since the 2002 implementation of No Child Left Behind, the American public education system has been fundamentally changed. Excessive testing, standardized curriculums, destructive demands on children, corporate-style evaluations, and top-down mandates have become the norm. In response, record numbers of demoralized educators have quit, and millions of students have been left educationally impoverished. This troubling transformation has been exhaustively critiqued by scholars and commentators. Yet one crucial voice has been missing. In Testing Education, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher's point of view. Based on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Greeley, Kathy. Testing education

ISBN:

9781625347831

1625347839

9781625347848

1625347847

OCLC:

1405365128