Accountability shovedown: Resisting the standards movement in early childhood education

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 457-462

  Hatch, J Amos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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EID: 0039108168     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170208300611     Document Type: Review

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5. Elkind, The Hurried Child, p. xii.
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13. See Jacques Steinberg, "Bush's Plan to Push Reading in Head Start Stirs Debate," New York Times, 10 February 2001.
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16. Linn, p. 11.
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18. and Gratz, p. 682.
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28. and Eisner, p. 369.
29. Eisner, p. 370.
30. Susan Ohanian, One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1999), pp. 3, 14.
31. Ohanian, pp. 17-29;
32. Kohn, "Fighting the Tests," p. 19;
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34. Rex Knowles and Trudy Knowles, "Accountability for What?," Phi Delta Kappan, January 2001, p. 392.
35. William E. Coffman, "A King over Egypt, Which Knew Not Joseph," Educational Measurement: Issues and Practices, Summer 1993, p. 8.
36. Brady, p. 649;
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38. and Lisa Delpit, Other People's Children (New York: New Press, 1995), p. 24.
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40. Bohn and Sleeter, p. 157;
41. and Kohn, The Schools Our Children Deserve, p. 55.
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44. See, for example, Linn, p. 14;
45. Ohanian, p. 23;
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47. Apple, p. 157.
48. Gratz, pp. 683-84;
49. Ohanian, p. 32;
50. and Merrow, p. 657.
51. Brady, p. 651;
52. Eisner, p. 370;
53. and Kohn, The Schools Our Children Deserve, pp. 15-16.
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55. Kohn, The Schools Our Children Deserve, p. 16.