ERIC Number: ED625265
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Apr-17
Pages: 28
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Equitable Teaching in the Context of Standardized Testing: The Story of "New Railside" High School
Cheng, Ivan; Sellers, Hannah; Morfin, Angelica; Manzo-Ustariz, Andrea; Young, Laura; Alatorre, Isaac; Buck, Bob; Minor, Enchantee
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Online, Apr 17-21, 2020)
Enacting equitable teaching practices and sustaining those practices continue to be challenges in most high schools (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2018), particularly in an era of high-stakes testing. Just one year after Boaler and Staples (2008) reported on the successes of "Railside High," where equitable teaching practices resulted in improved mathematics achievement, those signature practices had all but disappeared (Louie & Nasir, 2014). This paper discusses the outcomes and implications of enacting equitable teaching practices at a school demographically similar to Railside. Unlike Railside, however, equitable practices were adopted as an explicit strategy for improving student achievement, demonstrating through this process how university consultants and school personnel can collaborate to make mathematics accessible and equitable for all students.
Descriptors: Equal Education, Standardized Tests, Testing, Culture Fair Tests, High School Students, High Stakes Tests, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Teaching Methods, Access to Education, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Scores, Outcomes of Education
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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