Teaching By Numbers: Deconstructing the Discourse of Standards and Accountability in Education

by Maas Taubman; Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415962742
• ISBN10: 0415962749
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135886288
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-04-15
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Taubman offers interdisciplinary ways to understand the educational reforms underway in urban education, teaching, and teacher education, and their impact on what it means to teach. He maps the totality of the transformation, taking into account the constellation of forces shaping it, and proposes an alternative vision of teacher education.

Author Biography

Peter M. Taubman is Associate Professor of Education in the School of Education at Brooklyn College, where he teaches graduate courses in education and English.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Current State of Affairs	p. 8
Tests	p. 17
The Language of Educational Policy	p. 55
Audit Culture: Standards and the Practices of Accountability	p. 88
The Seduction of a Profession	p. 127
Intellectual Capital: How the Learning Sciences Led Education Astray	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 196
Bibliography	p. 202
Index	p. 223
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