Title
Au, Wayne, Unequal by Design: HIgh-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Annotation
Demonstrates the ways high-stakes testing creates, by design, currricular inequality (through content, form, pedagogic, bureaucratic, and discursive control); discusses the NCLB policy on testing; draws on critical social theory and Bernstein for analytic tools.
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Evaluation
Source Discipline
Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Philosophical Inquiry-Ampliative Criticism
Type of Study
Single Study
Narrow Topic
Curriculum Standards and Testing
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