Thursday, November 3, 2011

Radical Scholarship: CALL for proposals: De-Testing and De-Grading Schools (IAP)

Radical Scholarship: CALL for proposals: De-Testing and De-Grading Schools (IAP):

CALL for proposals: De-Testing and De-Grading Schools (IAP)

De-Testing and De-Grading Schools: Authentic Alternatives to Accountability and Standardization

Joe Bower and P. L. Thomas, editors


Focus:

The most recent century of education and education reform along with the last three decades of high-stakes testing and accountability reveals a disturbing paradox: Education has a steadfast commitment to testing and grading despite decades of research, theory, and philosophy that reveal the corrosive consequences of both testing and grading within an education system designed to support human agency and democratic principles.

This edited volume brings together a collection of essays that confronts the failure of testing and grading and then offers practical and detailed examinations of implementing at the macro and micro levels of education teaching and learning free of the weight of testing and grading. The book explores the following topics and