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Baker, Scott; Myers, Anthony; Vasquez, Brittany – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
Using North Carolina as a lens to illuminate broader national developments, this paper examines how and why educational policy in the United States turned away from a civil rights agenda of opportunity and embraced test-based accountability as a way of promoting racial equality. We show that comprehensive desegregation, enforcement of the Civil…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Educational Policy, Civil Rights, Educational Change