Open AccessTesting Times: A School Case Study
Author(s) -
Ivor Goodson,
Martha M. Foote
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
education policy analysis archives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1068-2341
DOI - 10.14507/epaa.v9n2.2001
Subject(s) - accountability , autonomy , standardized test , resistance (ecology) , state (computer science) , political science , public administration , sociology , pedagogy , mathematics education , psychology , ecology , law , algorithm , computer science , biology
A highly successful, innovative and creative alternative to traditional education is confronted by the demands of contemporary standardized accountability. The account here is a chronicle of the resistance of a particular school, the Durant School, to the global changes that would destroy its local ecologya school whose fight against the imposition of state standards and mandated tests has been a fight to preserve its integrity, its mission, and its autonomy.