Will standards save public education?

By Joshua Cohen, Deborah Meier, Joel Rogers

Subjects: Standards, Normes, Education, Educational change, Educational tests and measurements, Tests et mesures en éducation, Éducation

Description: "Deborah Meier offers a fresh take on standardized tests. While others have criticized standards and what they measure. Meier rejects the very idea of a centralized authority that dictates how and what teachers teach. Standardization, she argues, prevents citizens - including teachers - from emerging as thoughtful, responsible adults, seriously engaged with shaping their own schools, classrooms, and communities. As a result, young people can't learn from them how to be thoughtful, responsible adults and good citizens, the primary goal of public education in a democracy."--BOOK JACKET