Raising standards or raising barriers?: inequality and high-stakes testing in public education

1. High-Stakes Testing Policies: Examining Their Assumptions and Consequences / Mindy L. Kornhaber and Gary Orfield

2. Development and Impact of High-Stakes Testing / Gary Natriello and Aaron M. Pallas

3. High-Stakes Testing and Economic Productivity / Henry M. Levin

4. Impacts of Minimum Competency Exam Graduation Requirements on College Attendance and Early Labor Market Success of Disadvantaged Students / John H. Bishop and Ferran Mane

5. Adverse Impact of High-Stakes Testing on Minority Students: Evidence from One Hundred Years of Test Data / George Madaus and Marguerite Clarke

6. Do High-Stakes Graduation Tests Improve Learning Outcomes? Using State-level NAEP Data to Evaluate the Effects of Mandatory Graduation Tests / Monty Neill and Keith Gayler

7. Harmful Impact of the TAAS System of Testing in Texas: Beneath the Accountability Rhetoric / Linda McNeil and Angela Valenzuela

8. Should We End Social Promotion? Truth and Consequences / Robert M. Hauser

9. High-Stakes Testing and Civil Rights: Standards of Appropriate Test Use and a Strategy for Enforcing Them / Jay P. Heubert.