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

Joe Bower, P. L. Thomas

ISBN 10: 1433122391 / ISBN 13: 9781433122392

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc 2013-06-20, 2013

Beschreibung

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6666-IUK-9781433122392

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: De-Testing and De-Grading Schools: Authentic Alternatives to Accountability and Standardization (Counterpoints)
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc 2013-06-20
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1433122391
• ISBN-13: 9781433122392
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joe Bower is a teacher in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. He spent 10 years teaching grade eight language arts and science in a middle school, and is now a special education teacher in a children?s psychiatric assessment unit. Follow his work at www.joebower.org and @joe_bower.
P. L. Thomas, Associate Professor of Education (Furman University, Greenville SC), taught high school English in rural South Carolina before moving to teacher education. He is currently a column editor for English Journal (National Council of Teachers of English) and series editor for Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres (Sense Publishers). Follow his work at http://wrestlingwithwriting.blogspot.com/ and @plthomasEdD.