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Leaving children behind : how "Texas-style" accountability fails Latino youth / edited by Angela Valenzuela.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series, social context of educationPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: viii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0791462404
  • 9780791462409
  • 0791462390
  • 9780791462393
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.82968073 22
LOC classification:
  • LC2674.T4 L43 2005
Contents:
1. Introduction : the accountability debate in Texas : continuing the conversation / Angela Valenzuela -- 2. Performance-based school reforms and the federal role in helping schools that serve language-minority students / Jorge Ruiz de Velasco -- 3. Faking equity : high-stakes testing and the education of Latino youth / Linda McSpadden McNeil -- 4. Texas' second wave of high-stakes testing : anti-social promotion legislation, grade retention, and adverse impact on minorities / Richard R. Valencia and Bruno J. Villarreal -- 5. Playing to the logic of the Texas accountability system : how focusing on "ratings" - not children - undermines quality and equity / Kris Sloan -- 6. Standardized or sterilized? : differing perspectives on the effects of high-stakes testing in west Texas / Elaine Hampton -- 7. California's English-only policies : an analysis of initial effects / Laura Alamillo, Deborah Palmer, Celia Viramontes and Eugene E. Garcia -- 8. The centurion : standards and high-stakes testing as gatekeepers for bilingual teacher candidates in the new century / Belinda Bustos Flores and Ellen Riojas Clark -- 9. High-stakes testing and educational accountability as social constructions across cultures / Raymond V. Padilla -- 10. Accountability and the privatization agenda / Angela Valenzuela.
Review: "The federal government has based much of its education policies on those adopted in Texas. This book examines how "Texas-style" accountability - the notion that decisions governing retention, promotion, and graduation should be based on a single test score - fails Latina/o youth and their communities."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : the accountability debate in Texas : continuing the conversation / Angela Valenzuela -- 2. Performance-based school reforms and the federal role in helping schools that serve language-minority students / Jorge Ruiz de Velasco -- 3. Faking equity : high-stakes testing and the education of Latino youth / Linda McSpadden McNeil -- 4. Texas' second wave of high-stakes testing : anti-social promotion legislation, grade retention, and adverse impact on minorities / Richard R. Valencia and Bruno J. Villarreal -- 5. Playing to the logic of the Texas accountability system : how focusing on "ratings" - not children - undermines quality and equity / Kris Sloan -- 6. Standardized or sterilized? : differing perspectives on the effects of high-stakes testing in west Texas / Elaine Hampton -- 7. California's English-only policies : an analysis of initial effects / Laura Alamillo, Deborah Palmer, Celia Viramontes and Eugene E. Garcia -- 8. The centurion : standards and high-stakes testing as gatekeepers for bilingual teacher candidates in the new century / Belinda Bustos Flores and Ellen Riojas Clark -- 9. High-stakes testing and educational accountability as social constructions across cultures / Raymond V. Padilla -- 10. Accountability and the privatization agenda / Angela Valenzuela.

"The federal government has based much of its education policies on those adopted in Texas. This book examines how "Texas-style" accountability - the notion that decisions governing retention, promotion, and graduation should be based on a single test score - fails Latina/o youth and their communities."--BOOK JACKET.

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