By Angela Valenzuela
ISBN-10: 0791462390
ISBN-13: 9780791462393
ISBN-10: 0791462404
ISBN-13: 9780791462409
The federal govt has established a lot of its schooling rules on these followed in Texas. This publication examines how “Texas-style” accountability—the idea that judgements governing retention, merchandising, and commencement might be in accordance with a unmarried try score—fails Latina/o adolescence and their groups. The participants, a lot of them from Texas, scrutinize kingdom regulations referring to high-stakes trying out and supply new information that display how Texas’ present process of checking out ends up in a plethora of recent inequalities. They argue that Texas regulations exacerbate historical inequities, fail to house the wishes and skills of English language rookies, and that the dramatic academic development attributed to Texas’ method of responsibility is itself questionable. The ebook proposes a extra legitimate and democratic method of evaluation and responsibility that might mix standardized examinations with a number of resources of knowledge a couple of student’s educational performance.
Angela Valenzuela is Professor of Curriculum and guideline and Mexican American reports on the college of Texas at Austin.
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