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Spreading the big lie.(Book Review)
Diane Ravitch The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Children Learn. Knopf, 255 pages, $24
At the 2001 convention of the Modern Language Association in New Orleans, a resolution was submitted to the Delegate Assembly denouncing standardized tests. Drafted by the Radical Caucus, it asserted that "'high-stakes' tests invariably discriminate against students from poor, working-class, and minority families," and that they "provide an ideological rationale for the perpetuation of inequality." The resolution passed 107-11.
Six months later, the quarterly Daedalus devoted an issue to the fairness of tests and similar topics. The former ...
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