Title: Overtested
Description: This timely book explores what is often overlooked in policy debates about the education of English language learners: how the day-to-day dynamics of the classroom are affected by high-stakes testing and the pressures students and teachers experience and internalize as a result. The author presents and analyzes classroom observations, student work, and test scores, as well as interviews with students and teachers. A disturbing picture of today's overtested public school classroom emerges from the events and practices described in this book. While hard to believe, all the depictions presented took place in a real elementary school classroom and reflect the current culture of extreme accountability. -- Publisher description.
Subjects: Critical pedagogy, Ability testing, Foreign speakers, English language, Study and teaching, Education, Language and languages, Social aspects, English language, study and teaching, foreign speakers, Language and languages, study and teaching, English language, ability testing, Education, social aspects
Places: United States