Counter engagement: parents refusing high stakes testing and questioning policy in the era of the common core
Abstract
This study is a critical discourse analysis of the New Jersey Opt-Out Movement. In 2015, and in response to the increasing standardization of US public school instruction, and over-use of high-stakes testing, NJ parents began to refuse to allow their children to take a key end-of-the year exam, the PARCC. We employ the concepts of master and counter narratives to exam the qualitative data that was collected in an online-questionnaire, a focus...
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Title
Counter engagement: parents refusing high stakes testing and questioning policy in the era of the common core
Published Date
May 9, 2018
Journal
Volume
34
Issue
4
Pages
523 - 546
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