No Corporation Left Behind
How a Century of Illegitimate Testing Has Been Used to Justify Internal Colonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9202365 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margot Pepper (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 38 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-058-06-2006-10_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2094554793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
"I feel like a bad person." "I feel like a snail without a shell whose heart has been stepped on." These feelings were jotted down in Spanish by my second graders during the four weeks of standardized tests required by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The educational policy was instituted on the heels of the September 11 attacks by President George Bush, backed by both Democrats and Republicans. My students are required to take tests in Standard English, though half have yet to make the transition from Spanish to a second language in my immersion classroom.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Accountability · Art history · Colonialism · Corporation · Feeling · George (robot) · No child left behind · Political science · Sociology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |