Tests on trial

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 793-794

  Zirkel, Perry A ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0942263270     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (7)

1. Association of Mexican-American Educators v. State of California, 195 F.3d 465 (9th Cir. 1999). I obtained supplementary information via telephone interviews on 14 March 2000 with attorneys John Affeldt and Stephanie Wald, who represented the plaintiffs and defendants respectively.
2. Office for Civil Rights, The Use of Tests When Making High-Stakes Decisions for Students: A Resource Guide for Educators and Policymakers, revised draft (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1999).
3. For criticism of the OCR's position, see, for example, Roger Clegg and Lenore Ostrowsky, "Test Guidelines Will Coerce Colleges and Cheat Students," Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 July 1999, p. B-8.
4. See, for example, Perry A. Zirkel, "A Tabular Analysis of the Case Law Concerning High-Stakes Testing," West's Education Law Reporter, in press.
5. See, for example, Ann Bradley, "National Research Panel Tepid Over Tests for Licensed Teachers," Education Week, 15 March 2000, pp. 1, 16.
6. See Perry A. Zirkel, "The Law or the Lore?," Phi Delta Kappan, April 1996, p. 579.
7. For a well-balanced view of the applicable professional norms, see, for example, Jay Heubert and Robert Hauser, eds., High-Stakes Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999).