Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/sYH21o Objectifying Measures The Dominance of High-Stakes Testing and the Politics of Schooling By: Amanda Walker Johnson Publisher: Temple University Press Print ISBN: 9781592139057, 1592139051 eText ISBN: 9781592139071, 1592139078 Copyright year: 2009 Format: PDF Available from $ 31.95 USD SKU 9781592139071 In the past twenty years, the number of educational tests with high-stakes consequences—such as promotion to the next grade level or graduating from high school—has increased. At the same time, the difficulty of the tests has also increased. In Texas, a Latina state legislator introduced and lobbied for a bill that would take such factors as teacher recommendations, portfolios of student work, and grades into account for the students—usually students of color—who failed such tests. The bill was defeated. Using several types of ethnographic study (personal interviews, observations of the Legislature in action, news broadcasts, public documents from the Legislature and Texas Education Agency), Amanda Walker Johnson observed the struggle for the bill’s passage. Through recounting this experience, Objectifying Measures explores the relationship between the cultural production of scientific knowledge (of statistics in particular) and the often intuitive resistance to objectification of those adversely affected by the power of policies underwritten as scientific. Additional ISBNs 9781592139064, 159213906X
