TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phelps,Richard P.
TI  - Kill the messenger: the war on standardized testing 
SN  - 1412805120
PY  - 2005///, c2003
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Transaction Publishers
KW  - Educational tests and measurements
KW  - United States
KW  - Education
KW  - Standards
KW  - Educational accountability
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-319) and index; Reveille : prelude to battle (introduction) -- 1. The battlefield (testing systems and testing interests) -- 2. Attack strategies and tactics -- 3. Campaigns : the big, bad SAT -- 4. Campaigns : Texas, the early years -- 5. Campaigns : Texas, the presidential election year 2000 -- 6. War correspondence (media coverage of testing) -- 7. The fruits of victory (benefits of testing) -- 8. The spoils of war (valid concerns about testing) -- 9. The agony of defeat (the consequences of losing the war : the alternatives to standardized testing) -- Appendix : an anti-testing vocabulary
ER  -