false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181498693m/1159222.jpg 1159222 3 The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and judged almost solely on the bottom line: test scores. <P><P>To see if this world is producing better students, Linda Perlstein immersed herself in a suburban Maryland elementary school. The resulting portrait -- detailed, human, and truly thought-provoking -- is marked by the same narrative gifts and expertise that made Not Much Just Chillin' so illuminating. <P><P>The school, once deemed a failure, is now held up as an example of reform done right. Perlstein explores the rewards and costs of that transformation, through the experiences of the people who lived it. Nine-year-olds meditate to activate their brains before exams and kindergartners write paragraphs. Teachers attempt to address diverse needs at the same time they are expected to follow daily scripts, and feel compelled to focus on topics that will be tested at the expense of those that won't. The principal attempts to keep it all together, in the face of immense challenges. <P><P>Perlstein provides the first detailed view of how new education policies are modified by human realities. Tested will be talked about, thought about, written about -- and will almost certainly play an important role in the national debate as the federal education law come up for renewal. 1146827 24 7 2007 Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade total:66|5:18|4:33|3:11|2:3|1:1| 66 262 172 26 4 1 false false Tue Feb 24 16:47:23 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 17:00:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 17:59:14 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 18:52:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 21:50:37 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 21 21:37:52 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 24 18:31:16 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 18:31:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 30 08:15:52 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 03 21:08:14 -0700 2008
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