Leaving children behind
Subtitle: why Texas-style accountability fails Latino youth
By: edited by Angela Valenzuela.
Contributors: Valenzuela, Angela.
Series: SUNY series, the social context of education; SUNY series, social context of education
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Hispanic Americans -- Education -- Texas; Educational accountability -- Texas; Educational tests and measurements -- Texas
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The status of the accountability debate in Texas: continuing the conversation / Angela Valenzuela; title: Performance based school reforms and the federal role in helping schools that serve language minority children / Jorge Ruiz de Velasco; title: Faking equity: high-stakes testing and the education of Latino youth / Linda McSpadden McNeil; title: 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; title: Playing to the logic of the Texas accountability system: how a focus on ratings, not children, undermines quality and equity / Kris Sloan; title: Standardized or sterilized? Differing perspectives on the effects of high-stakes testing in West Texas / Elaine Hampton; title: California's English only policies: an analysis of initial effects / Laura Alamillo ... [et al.]; title: The centurion: standards and high-stakes testing as gatekeepers for bilingual teacher candidates in the new century / Belinda Bustos Flores and Ellen Riojas Clark; title: "High stakes testing" and "educational accountability" as social constructions across cultures / Raymond V. Padilla; title: Accountability and the privatization agenda / Angela Valenzuela.