[PDF.93cr] Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History

Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History

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 | #1055630 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2013-03-11 |  2013-02-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x6.25 x1.25l,1.35 | File type: PDF | 308 pages

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||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| An essential reading in the history of testing and accountability|By Sherman Dorn|Bill Reese's history of testing in the 19th century shows that the previous written history is wrong: standardized testing began long before the 1890s. Reese provides persuasive evidence that a key turning point was the mass testing of Boston grammar-school students in the summer of 1845, and the| |William Reese takes the reader back to the first standardized test in public school in the city of Boston in 1845...This book is a major addition to the role of schools in American society. People familiar with the arguments for and against testing will

Written tests to evaluate students were a radical and controversial innovation when American educators began adopting them in the 1800s. Testing quickly became a key factor in the political battles during this period that gave birth to America's modern public school system. William J. Reese offers a richly detailed history of an educational revolution that has so far been only partially told.

Single-classroom schools were the norm throughout the United States at...

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