High-Stakes Schooling
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High-Stakes Schooling

What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform

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High-Stakes Schooling

What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform

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If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christopher Bjork reminds us in this study, however, we are not the first to make testing so central to education: Japan has been doing it for decades. Drawing on Japan's experiences with testing, overtesting, and recent reforms to relax educational pressures, he sheds light on the best path forward for US schools.Bjork asks a variety of important questions related to testing and reform: Does testing overburden students? Does it impede innovation and encourage conformity? Can a system anchored by examination be reshaped to nurture creativity and curiosity? How should any reforms be implemented by teachers? Each chapter explores questions like these with careful attention to the actual effects policies have had on schools in Japan and other Asian settings, and each draws direct parallels to issues that US schools currently face. Offering a wake-up call for American education, Bjork ultimately cautions that the accountability-driven practice of standardized testing might very well exacerbate the precise problems it is trying to solve.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780226309552
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Tables
  6. ONE Searching for Solutions
  7. TWO Framing the Education Crisis
  8. THREE Examining the Impact of Reform Policies
  9. FOUR The Teaching Force
  10. FIVE Nurturing Enthusiasm in Elementary School Students
  11. SIX Responses to Change in the Middle Schools
  12. SEVEN Curricular Reform, Academic Achievement, and Educational Opportunity
  13. EIGHT Shifting Student-Teacher Relationships
  14. NINE Broadening the Discussion
  15. TEN US Teachers Reflect on Japanese Elementary School Instruction
  16. ELEVEN Looking Forward
  17. Epilogue
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Index