1st Edition
Teaching By Numbers Deconstructing the Discourse of Standards and Accountability in Education
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The Current State of Affairs
3. Tests
4. The Language of Educational Policy
5. Audit Culture: Standards and the Practices of Accountability
6. The Seduction of a Profession
7. Intellectual Capital: How the Learning Sciences Led Education Astray
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
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Peter Taubman is Associate Professor of Education in the School of Education at Brooklyn College, where he teaches graduate courses in education and English.
"...I wholly appreciate Taubman's efforts to critique the climate of blame and defamation in defense of teachers. Peter Taubman is fervent in his language, thorough in his literature review, and provocative in his arguments."--Education Review, April 2010
