@article{1478588,
      recid = {1478588},
      author = {McDonnell, Lorraine M., },
      title = {Politics, Persuasion, and Educational Testing /},
      pages = {1 online resource (264 p.)},
      abstract = {In a story of reform and backlash, Lorraine McDonnell  reveals the power and the dangers of policies based on  appeals to voters' values. Exploring the political  struggles inspired by mass educational tests, she analyzes  the design and implementation of statewide testing in  California, Kentucky, and North Carolina in the 1990s.  Educational reformers and political elites sought to use  test results to influence teachers, students, and the  public by appealing to their values about what schools  should teach and offering apparently objective evidence  about whether the schools were succeeding. But mass testing  mobilized parents who opposed and mistrusted the use of  tests, and left educators trying to mediate between angry  citizens and policies the educators may not have fully  supported. In the end, some testing programs were  significantly altered. Yet despite the risks inherent in  relying on values to change what students are taught, these  tests and the educational ideologies behind them have  modified classroom practice. McDonnell draws lessons from  these stories for the federal No Child Left Behind act,  with its sweeping directives for high-stakes testing. To  read this book is to witness the unfolding drama of  America's educational culture wars, and to see hope for  their resolution.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478588},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040786},
}