This title arms parents with everything they need to know to fight the pro-standards movements. Parents all across the political spectrum have united on one issue: when it comes to standardized testing, they all lean toward some kind of educational reform. Drawing on her 20 years of classroom experience and enriched by real-life anecdotes, Susan Ohanian's "What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten?" explains the misguided mania for testing children, why a child's success or failure is currently determined by a set of tests, and what parents are doing to change public policy on education. Even children who are able test takers are hurt by the politics surrounding testing. Ohanian's moving insider's view imparts a sense of urgency about the situation of individual children caught on the front line of our treacherous education system. This beacon will inspire parents who are confused, angered, or intimidated by the forces that control their children's education to take action.
- ISBN10 0071383263
- ISBN13 9780071383264
- Publish Date 26 March 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 May 2006
- Publish Country US
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint McGraw-Hill Contemporary
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English