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Final Test : The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools by Peter Schrag (2003, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew Press, T.H.E.

ISBN-101565848217

ISBN-139781565848214

eBay Product ID (ePID)2381271

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages

Publication NameFinal Test : the Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

SubjectEducational Policy & Reform / General, Finance, Educational Law & Legislation, Aims & Objectives, Testing & Measurement

TypeTextbook

AuthorPeter Schrag

Subject AreaLaw, Education

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight23.6 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-051382

Reviews"This thoughtful and insightful book shows what's being done to fulfill the promise America made to itself almost fifty years ago." -Robert B. Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor "Schrag raises important questions: Who decides what's adequate? And what happens when adequate funding fails to produce adequate progress?" - American School Board Journal

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal371.010973

SynopsisFinal Test describes a powerful new movement that has emerged across America in recent years to bridge the wide gap still separating the achievement of African American and Latino students from their white and Asian counterparts more than half a century after Brown v. Board . In the past fifteen years, scholars, judges, and advocates for poor children have begun to develop a progressive approach to education in which public policies and funding are based on calculations of "adequacy"--what it actually takes in teachers, books, facilities, and other resources to educate each child. While Schrag explains the legal and legislative battles for reform with great insight and clarity, he also never loses sight of the human side of the story, "describing in poignant detail the impact of funding inequities on individual students and why 'money matters' in rectifying educational inadequacies" (Advocacy Center for Children's Educational Success with Standards). As the California Journal raved, "few writers can translate complex ideas into compelling nonfiction like Peter Schrag."

LC Classification NumberLA217.2.S38 2003