Testing Education : A Teacher's Memoir / Kathy Greeley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greeley, Kathy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Curricula--United States.

Education.

Education--Standards--United States.

Educational tests and measurements--United States.

Educational tests and measurements.

Public schools--United States.

Public schools.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, Massachusetts : 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.

Contents:

Cover

Advance Praise for Testing Education

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Foreword

Contents

A Note

Introduction: Why Write This Book?

1. Teacher Education

2. First Job

3. Finding Home

4. Windows into Student Thinking

5. Making Theater, Making Sense

6. Reconstruction

7. Real Assessment

8. Teaching Other People's Children

9. The Real World: City Sites and Other Things We Don't Do Anymore

10. Ed Reform Creeps In

11. Exit: Graham &amp

Parks, Enter: No Child Left Behind

12. Consolidating Schools and Beyond

13. JMG

14. Is This What a Principal Does?

15. Silver Bullets

16. The Harbor School

17. Chemotherapy

18. You Can't Go Home Again

19. Race to Nowhere

20. Good Stuff

21. The End . . .

22. . . . And Maybe a Beginning?

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Suggested Reading

Notes

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Other Format:

Print version: Greeley, Kathy Testing Education

ISBN:

9781685750534

OCLC:

1407215132