Fenwick W. English - Deep Curriculum Alignment

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Creating a Level Playing Field for All Children on High-Stakes Tests of Educational Accountability

Fenwick W. English
Betty E. Steffy

The Scarecrow Press, Inc. A Scarecrow Education Book Lanham, Maryland, and London 2001

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SCARECROW PRESS, INC.

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Copyright 2001 by Fenwick W. English and Betty E. Steffy

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English, Fenwick W.

Deep curriculum alignment: creating a level playing field for all children on high-stakes tests of educational accountability / Fenwick W. English, Betty E. Steffy.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8108-3970-9 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-8108-3971-7 (alk. paper)

1. Curriculum planningUnited States. 2. Educational tests and measurementsSocial aspectsUnited States. 3. Educational accountabilityUnited States. I. Steffy, Betty E. II. Title.

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When one considers in its length and in its breadth the importance of this question of the education of a nation's young, the broken lives, the defeated hopes, the national failures, which result from the frivolous inertia with which it is treated, it is difficult to restrain within oneself a savage rage.

Alfred North Whitehead (1959)

A cross the landscape of America, high-stakes testing continues to leave in its cyclonic path defeated hopes and broken lives. It has been estimated that between 114 and 320 million tests are given per year in American schools (Madaus and Kellaghan, 1992, p. 126). Like Alfred North Whitehead (1959), we have worked along this highway for nearly three decades, bolstering the shaken confidence of dedicated teachers and administrators by showing that nothing is wrong with them, and certainly nothing deficient or inferior about their children.