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The Mismeasure of Education

By: Jim Horn,Denise Wilburn

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With new student assessments and teacher evaluation schemes in the planning or early implementation phases, this book takes a step back to examine the ideological and historical grounding, potential benefits, scholarly evidence, and ethical basis for the new generation of test based accountability measures. After providing the political and cultural contexts for the rise of the testing accountability movement in the 1960s that culminated almost forty years later in No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, this book then moves on to provide a policy history and social policy analysis of value-added testing in Tennessee that is framed around questions of power relations, winners, and losers. In examining the issues and exercise of power that are sustained in the long-standing policy of standardized testing in schools, this work provides a big picture perspective on assessment practices over time in the U. S.; by examining the rise of value-added assessment in Tennessee, a fine-grained and contemporary case is provided within that larger context. The last half of the book provides a detailed survey of the research based critiques of value-added methodology, while detailing an aggressive marketing campaign to make value-added modeling (VAM) a central component of reform strategies following NCLB. The last chapter and epilogue place the continuation of test-based accountability practices within the context of an emerging pushback against privatization, high stakes testing, and other education reforms. This book will be useful to a wide audience, including teachers, parents, school leaders, policymakers, researchers, and students of educational history, policy, and politics.

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1623963931

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Something to Love

By: Denise Robins

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Something to Love

By: Denise Robins

Beautiful young nurse Christie Paige knows what it means to long for someone and to have that longing crushed. She goes to the children's clinic in the Austrian Alps to work at the side of Dr. Phillip Vereker, the man she plans to marry. Then her exquisite dream is shattered when Phillip marries one of his patients. After a painful interlude, the immense silent grandeur of the mountains, the brilliant star-jewelled sky - it all begins to work its magic. And inspired by powerful Maxwell Grant, the clinic's founder, her arduous work becomes a wonderful cure for misery. But always there is Phillip - Phillip... how would she forget at such close proximity? After him, can she ever feel the deep, unswerving passion of everlasting love? A captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1951, and available now for the first time in eBook.

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444781707

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9781444781700

Daughter of the White River

Depression-Era Treachery & Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta

By: Denise Parkinson

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Daughter of the White River

Depression-Era Treachery & Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta

By: Denise Parkinson

The tragic, true story of Helen Spence, the teenager who murdered her father’s killers in the insulated lower White River area of Arkansas in 1931. The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas’s White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local darling Helen Spence on a tragic path. In 1931, Spence shocked Arkansas when she avenged her father’s murder in a DeWitt courtroom. The state soon discovered that no prison could hold her. For the first time, prison records are unveiled to provide an essential portrait. Join author Denise Parkinson for an intimate look at a Depression-era tragedy. The legend of Helen Spence refuses to be forgotten—despite her unmarked grave. “Most memorably, Parkinson evokes the natural beauty of the White River itself. But more importantly, she’s given Helen Spence, daughter of the river, a sympathetic hearing—something in its pulp version of events Daring Detective did not.”—Memphis Flyer “Denise details Helen’s life, from the murder of her father to the horrific treatment she received at the hands of the law, including how prison officials seemed to entice her to escape a final time, with the attempt culminating in her murder.”—Only in Arkansas

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625840136

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The Mismeasure of Education

By: Jim Horn,Denise Wilburn

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By: Jim Horn,Denise Wilburn

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The Mismeasure of Education

The Mismeasure of Education

Something to Love

Something to Love

Daughter of the White River

Daughter of the White River

The Mismeasure of Education

The Mismeasure of Education

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