Kill the messenger : the war on standardized testing / Richard P. Phelps ; with a foreword by Herbert J. Walberg and a preface by J.E. Stone.
Phelps, Richard P.
2005
LB3051 .P54 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Kill the messenger : the war on standardized testing / Richard P. Phelps ; with a foreword by Herbert J. Walberg and a preface by J.E. Stone.
Author Phelps, Richard P.
Edition 1st paperback printing
ISBN 1412805120 (pbk.)
Publication Details New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, 2005, c2003.
Language English
Description xix, 331 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number LB3051 .P54 2005
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-319) and index.
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Reveille : prelude to battle (introduction)
1. The battlefield (testing systems and testing interests)
2. Attack strategies and tactics
3. Campaigns : the big, bad SAT
4. Campaigns : Texas, the early years
5. Campaigns : Texas, the presidential election year 2000
6. War correspondence (media coverage of testing)
7. The fruits of victory (benefits of testing)
8. The spoils of war (valid concerns about testing)
9. The agony of defeat (the consequences of losing the war : the alternatives to standardized testing)
Appendix : an anti-testing vocabulary

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