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America's Failing Schools

How Parents and Teachers Can Cope With No Child Left Behind

By W. James Popham

Published May 2nd 2005 by Routledge – 176 pages

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'If you’re interested in accountability of schools and educational testing, read this book.'

'Jim Popham, a doyen of educational testing in the US, chaired the recent Commission on Instructionally Supportive Assessment, set up with the blessing of teachers’ organisations to counter the legislation. In this book, he calls with clarity for alterations in the Bill, not to reduce schools’ accountability but to avoid the Bill’s educationally unsound outcomes,including the unjust “failing” of schools that are not failing.'

- British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 38 No 1 2007