High stakes, hard choices: when school reformers demand that parents spend more time on homework and welfare reformers demand more time at work, what's supposed to give? (Children).
American Prospect, The, July, 2002 by Chin, Margaret M.
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OVER THE LAST DECADE, TWO IMPORTANT SOCIAL policies originating on the right have been recast as centrist and adopted nationwide. One is welfare reform, which has pushed (some would say shoved) poor and low-skill parents headlong into the labor market. The other is the turn against "social promotion" and toward high-stakes testing in public schools.
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Kids as young as eight years old are now held back to repeat a grade if they do not achieve specific test scores. The two policies were inspired by wholly different research findings and are being implemented by entirely ...
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