Download or read book Stop High-Stakes Testing written by Dale Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop High-Stakes Testing: An Appeal to America's Conscience is a compelling indictment of the use of high-stakes assessments with punitive consequences in our public schools. The authors trace the history of the policy and document the inequities for children of poverty that undergird high-stakes testing practices. Lack of dental and medical care, environmental violence, insufficient school funding, racism, and classism_all factors that contribute to this dire situation_are discussed in depth. The authors make a convincing case for discontinuing the unjust testing that has been forced on our nation's public school children.