Author: George Barrell Emerson
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: William J. Reese
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674075692
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Written tests to evaluate students were a radical and controversial innovation when American educators began adopting them in the 1800s. Testing quickly became a key factor in the political battles during this period that gave birth to America's modern public school system. William J. Reese offers a richly detailed history of an educational revolution that has so far been only partially told. Single-classroom schools were the norm throughout the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century. Pupils demonstrated their knowledge by rote recitation of lessons and were often assessed according to criteria of behavior and discipline having little to do with academics. Convinced of the inadequacy of this system, the reformer Horace Mann and allies on the Boston School Committee crafted America's first major written exam and administered it as a surprise in local schools in 1845. The embarrassingly poor results became front-page news and led to the first serious consideration of tests as a useful pedagogic tool and objective measure of student achievement. A generation after Mann's experiment, testing had become widespread. Despite critics' ongoing claims that exams narrowed the curriculum, ruined children's health, and turned teachers into automatons, once tests took root in American schools their legitimacy was never seriously challenged. Testing Wars in the Public Schools puts contemporary battles over scholastic standards and benchmarks into perspective by showcasing the historic successes and limitations of the pencil-and-paper exam.

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Languages : en
Pages : 956

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Author: Henry Barnard
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 914

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Author: Henry Barnard
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382329565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 922

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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Languages : en
Pages : 914

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1004

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Vol. 25 is the report of the commissioner of education for 1880; v. 29, report for 1877.

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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Author: Columbia University. Libraries
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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