Unequal By Design

High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

By: Wayne Au

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Paperback | 27 August 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Unequal By Design critically examines high-stakes standardized testing in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by such testing. This thoughtful analysis traces standardized testing's origins in the Eugenics and Social Efficiency movements of the late 19^th and early 20^th century through its current use as the central tool for national educational reform via No Child Left Behind. By exploring historical, social, economic, and educational aspects of testing, author Wayne Au demonstrates that these tests are not only premised on the creation of inequality, but that their structures are inextricably intertwined with social inequalities that exist outside of schools.

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"If equity and transformation of current schooling conditions are to be attained, Unequal by design: high-stakes testing and the standardization of inequality is a beacon to help realize 'the potential to be equal by design should we so choose' (p. 145)."--Michael Vavrus, Journal of Education Policy, 25:1, 113-114

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