High-Stakes Schooling: What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform

by Christopher Bjork

If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christopher Bjork reminds us in this study, however, we are not the first to make testing so central to education: Japan has been doing it for decades. Drawing on Japan's experiences with testing, overtesting,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022630941X
• ISBN13: 9780226309415
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"