The Effects of High-Stakes Testing on the Economy and the Educational System 
Wicked Policy for Massachusetts and the Nation

Dr. David C. Berliner, Regents Professor in the College of Education at Arizona State University and co-author of Collateral Damage:  How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America’s Schools, will synthesize background literature on high stakes testing and combine it with the latest research on testing practices and press accounts of  the reactions  to NCLB testing policies from teachers, administrators, parents, and students, to support their contention that high-stakes testing, far from having the uplifting effects promised, instead undermines the eduational system and corrupts those who are touched by it.

February 12, 4:30 p.m. in McGuinn Hall, Room 121, Boston College