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By Dale Johnson,Bonnie Johnson,Steve Farenga,Daniel Ness

cease High-Stakes trying out: An entice America's moral sense is a compelling indictment of using high-stakes exams with punitive results in our public colleges. The authors hint the historical past of the coverage and record the inequities for kids of poverty that undergird high-stakes trying out practices. loss of dental and therapy, environmental violence, inadequate institution investment, racism, and classism_all components that give a contribution to this dire situation_are mentioned intensive. The authors make a powerful case for discontinuing the unjust trying out that has been compelled on our nation's public institution children.

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