Changing America's Schools for the worse: Some side-effects of high-stakes testing

Fostering Change in Institutions, Environments, and People: A festschrift in Honor of Gavriel Salomon

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 119-148

  Berliner, David C ^a   Nichols, Sharon L ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203868546     Document Type: Chapter

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