Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

Unequal By Design critically examines high-stakes standardized testing in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by such testing. This thoughtful analysis traces standardized testing’s origins in the Eugenics and Social Efficiency movements of the late 19th and early 20th century through its current use as the central tool for national educational reform via No Child Left Behind. By exploring historical, social, economic, and educational aspects of testing, author Wayne Au demonstrates that these tests are not only premised on the creation of inequality, but that their structures are inextricably intertwined with social inequalities that exist outside of schools.Additional ISBNs041599070X, 0203892046, 0415990718, 9780415990707, 9780203892046, 9780415990714Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality 1st Edition is written by Wayne Au; Wayne Au and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Unequal By Design are 9781135853730, 1135853738 and the print ISBNs are 9780415990707, 041599070X. Additional ISBNs include 041599070X, 0203892046, 0415990718, 9780415990707, 9780203892046, 9780415990714.