Review:
-Using war metaphors throughout, Phelps offers a vigorous defense of high stakes standardized testing. With an educational viewpoint shaped by socially and economically conservative ideologies, he discusses the nature of the battle between testing advocates and opponents, the strategies of those attempting to undermine testing initiatives, the various -campaigns- against testing, and the media, which he feels are biased.- --D. K. Kaufman, Choice -[A]n embattled book. Incensed by the partisan tactics of anti-testing groups, Phelps deliberately goes to great lengths to expound and analyze the differing points of view, helped by scrupulous and scholarly documentation and a robustly empirical approach.- --Martin Turner, Intelligence -With standardized testing prominently featured in the No Child Left Behind Act, Kill the Messenger should be required reading. Our children deserve it!- --Charlene K. Harr, author of The Politics of the PTA "Using war metaphors throughout, Phelps offers a vigorous defense of high stakes standardized testing. With an educational viewpoint shaped by socially and economically conservative ideologies, he discusses the nature of the battle between testing advocates and opponents, the strategies of those attempting to undermine testing initiatives, the various "campaigns" against testing, and the media, which he feels are biased." --D. K. Kaufman, Choice "[A]n embattled book. Incensed by the partisan tactics of anti-testing groups, Phelps deliberately goes to great lengths to expound and analyze the differing points of view, helped by scrupulous and scholarly documentation and a robustly empirical approach." --Martin Turner, Intelligence "With standardized testing prominently featured in the No Child Left Behind Act, Kill the Messenger should be required reading. Our children deserve it!" --Charlene K. Harr, author of The Politics of the PTA "Using war metaphors throughout, Phelps offers a vigorous defense of high stakes standardized testing. With an educational viewpoint shaped by socially and economically conservative ideologies, he discusses the nature of the battle between testing advocates and opponents, the strategies of those attempting to undermine testing initiatives, the various "campaigns" against testing, and the media, which he feels are biased." --D. K. Kaufman, Choice "[A]n embattled book. Incensed by the partisan tactics of anti-testing groups, Phelps deliberately goes to great lengths to expound and analyze the differing points of view, helped by scrupulous and scholarly documentation and a robustly empirical approach." --Martin Turner, "Intelligence" "With standardized testing prominently featured in the No Child Left Behind Act, "Kill the Messenger" should be required reading. Our children deserve it!" --Charlene K. Harr, author of "The Politics of the PTA"
About the Author:
Richard P. Phelps has devoted most of his working life to the world of education. His research work on testing has been published in Evaluation Review, The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, Educational and Psychological Measurement, among others. Herbert J. Walberg, a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, is a University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago and chairman of the board of directors of the Heartland Institute in Chicago. J. E. Stone is the founder and moderator of the Education Consumers ClearingHouse, and a professor of education at East Tennessee State University.
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