Beyond the Standards Movement: Defending Quality Education In An Age of Test Scores

Alfie Kohn makes the case that a preoccupation with raising test standards may have exactly the opposite effect on student academic performance.

Instead of motivating students to learn and teachers to excel, it creates a system driven by coercion, a fear of failure, and unrelenting competition between students, teachers, and schools?all of which undermine excellence.

The video presents a useful counter-view to consensus thinking on the subject of tough standards.

Includes: VHS

Produced By: National Professional Resources, Inc.

30 minutes