Education Policy Analysis Archives (Jan 2001)

Testing Times: A School Case Study

  • Ivor Goodson,
  • Martha Foote

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9
p. 2

Abstract

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A highly successful, innovative and creative alternative to traditional education is confronted by the demands of contemporary standardized accountability. The account here is a chronicle of the resistance of a particular school, the Durant School, to the global changes that would destroy its local ecology—a school whose fight against the imposition of state standards and mandated tests has been a fight to preserve its integrity, its mission, and its autonomy.