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Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools
For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate and provocative book provides a fresh perspective on the issue and powerful ammunition for opponents of high-stakes tests. Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes...more
Hardcover, 250 pages
Published
March 2nd 2007
by Harvard Education Publishing Group
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Collateral Damage takes a stand on high-stakes testing in America's schools. Nichols and Berliner wrote a book filled with examples of how high-stakes testing is hurting our students rather than helping. They exposed the corruption on all levels; cheating is evident from the classroom to the school board. Nichols and Berliner drilled one point into every chapter of their book: high-stakes testing has made worse everything that it set out to fix. I am impressed with their ability to keep this the...more
Oct 26, 2007
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This book is a must for anyone involved in the educational process. The authors demonstrate how the testing has hijacked the system.
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