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The No Child Left Behind Act uses the phrase scientifically-based research more than 100 times when discussing standardized testing, but Making the Grades raises serious questions about the validity of many large-scale assessments simply by describing one man's career in the industry. This first-hand account of life in the testing business is alter...
Diane Ravitch
2021-03-04T19:08:57.000Z
Overturning Brown
The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement
School choice, widely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The strategies and rhetoric of school choice, however, resemble those of segregationists who closed public schools and funded private institutions to block African American stude...
Diane Ravitch
2020-12-14T18:43:43.000Z