RT Article
T1 The Perfect Storm of Education Reform: High-Stakes Testing and Teacher Evaluation
JF Social justice
VO 42
IS 1
SP 70
OP 92
A1 Croft, Sheryl J.
A1 Roberts, Mari Ann
A1 Stenhouse, Vera L.
A2 Roberts, Mari Ann
A2 Stenhouse, Vera L.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747155179
AB This article examines seemingly disconnected education reform policies and posits that their unprecedented alignment is eroding the bedrock of public education. U sing Georgia as an example, the authors demonstrate how neoliberal efforts to reform education occur through three systematic and interconnected fronts: political climate change, the testing industrial complex, and a mesoscale evaluation system. The authors challenge assertions that those reforms increase academic achievement and global competitiveness. Instead, the orchestrated alignment is being experienced as an assault on the supposed beneficiaries (i.e., public education and teacher education). These conceptual weather fronts can serve as a means to analyze stated intentions versus outcomes of education policy. The authors conclude with grassroots responses by students, teachers, and others to the destructive elements of reform.
K1 Education -- United States
K1 No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
K1 education policy
K1 public education
K1 Academic Achievement
K1 Teacher evaluation
K1 Public education reform