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Why Standardized Tests Threaten Multiculturalism

Oregon's statewide social-studies assessment (a randomized, multiple-choice maze) is part of a "democratic" national standards movement that threatens good teaching and multicultural studies. If multiculturalism's key goal is accounting for historical influences on current social realities, then Oregon's standards and tests earn a failing grade. (MLH)

• Author/Creator: Bigelow, Bill
• Date Published: Apr
• Journal/Secondary Title: Educational Leadership
• Number: 7
• Volume: 56
• Year: 1999

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Multicultural Educational Practices
• Subject: Elementary Secondary Education
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: National Standards
• Subject: Politics of Education
• Subject: Social Studies
• Subject: Standardized Tests
• Subject: State History
• Subject: Testing Problems
• Subject: Unions

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