Objectifying Measures: The Dominance of High-Stakes Testing and the Politics of Schooling

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Index Abu-Lughod, Lila, 43, 50, 122 Accountability system, 34, 51, 74, 76, 81–84, 93, 100, 107–108, 126 Alternative education placement, disciplinary, 60–61, 63–65 Anthropology: activist, 15, 155; and colonialism, 17, 154–155; as cultural critique, 17; and race, 13, 14 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 56, 121–122 “at risk,” 57 Austin, 27, 36, 43, 88, 117, 144–145 Baker, Ella, 12–13, 149 Bell, Derrick, 153–157 Bell curve, 7, 48, 49, 80, 106 Bell Curve, The, 7, 81 Blalock, Glenn and Rich Haswell study, 44, 77 Brown v. Board of Education, 28–29. See also Desegregation Bruni, Sylvia, 131–132 Bush, George W., 2, 4, 24, 36, 50, 52, 126, 135 Castel, Robert, 83–85, 95, 107 Clark, Joe, 1, 126 Clements, William, 31, 32 Clinton, William Jefferson, 31, 144 Community Education Partners, 63–65 Connerly, Ward, 148 Conscientização, 153 Correlation, 109, 116–118 Critical Race Theory, 153 Critical discourse analysis, 11–12, 164n11 Cultural studies of science, 7, 11 Dawson, Glenda, Representative, 93, 173n23 Deficit-thinking, 78, 114–116 De-democratization, 19 Democracy, 51, 66; ethos, “democratics,” 151–152; radical and plural, 149–150 Democratic Party of Texas, 31, 36–37 Desegregation, 28–29, 144–145 Desrosières, Alain, 10, 44, 45, 48, 49, 78, 97, 102, 106 Dickens, Charles, Hard Times, 46, 144 Discourse, 8–10, 13, 20, 89, 97, 150–152, 154, 171n4; and silence, 123. See also Critical discourse analysis, Discourse network Discourse network, 10, 45 Disparate impact, 90, 113–114 Double consciousness, 18, 151 210 \ Index DuBois, William Edward Burghardt, 12, 13, 26, 75–76, 81, 152. See also Double consciousness Dutton, Harold, Representative, 39, 41, 61, 89 Edgewood v. Kirby, 33–34, 87 Eighty-percent rule, 90 Embodiment, 123, 125, 130 Ethical ambition, 153–157 Ethnography, 11, 15, 17, 18, 151 Eugenics, 61, 73, 78, 80–82, 89, 117, 172n17 Exit-level exams (high school graduation exams), 3, 34, 49, 54, 107, 110–111, 125 Experience, 43, 123–125, 129, 165n19, 175n10 Experiential deconstruction, 125, 133, 150, 152 Feminism, 121, 122 Fordism, 70 Foucault, Michel, 8, 43–44, 49, 73, 143 Friedman, Milton, 85–86, 94, 135 Galton, Sir Francis, 7, 73, 89, 107, 117, 174n10 Gaussian distribution, 80, 106 Gender conservativism, 93–95 GI Forum v. Texas Education Agency, 3–4, 35–36, 110–116 Gilroy, Paul, 13, 147 Goldwater, Barry, 32 Governmentality, 8, 51 Gramsci, Antonio, 9, 45–50, 154 Griggs, Bob, Representative, 86 Grusendorf, Kent, Representative, 39, 74, 85, 88, 104 Haney, Walt, 110 Harcourt General, 71, 77, 111 Hegemony, 7, 9, 154 Houston, 48, 57–59, 63–65 House Public Education Committee, Texas, 5, 39–41, 61, 65, 100, 126, 136 Insurance technologies, 51 Informational economy, 70–73 Intellectuals, 14, 143 Just for the Kids, 65, 129 Lipman, Pauline, 6, 71, 125 LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens), 28, 60 Madden, Jerry, Representative, 40, 88, 89 MALDEF, 3, 29, 33, 56, 87, 111–112, 156 Malthusianism, 78–80 Marketization, 6, 66–68 McNeil, Linda, 5, 65 Measure: “beyond measure” v. “outside measure,” 146–149; measuring silences, 123 Meritocracy, 78, 80–82 Meta-ideologization, 150–152 Milliken v. Bradley, 29–30 Moses, Bob (and the Algebra Project), 149 Multiple criteria, 4, 149–150 Multiple criteria bills, 4, 42, 53, 98 NAACP, 28, 35, 111 Narrative, 19–20, 46, 104, 119–123, 133–134, 152 Nation at Risk, A, 33, 45, 74, 86, 169n6 National Business Roundtable, 74, 103 NCS Pearson, 69–70, 116 Neoliberalism, 13, 66, 75, 79, 85, 141 New Deal, 24, 31, 73, 78, 177n7 New Right, 66–68 No Child Left Behind Act, The, 2–4, 23–24, 36, 58, 75, 84, 86, 129, 145 Objectification, 2, 43–48, 56, 104, 143–146; alienation, 45, 48, 126–129; commodification, 65, 71–72; statistical, 10, 20, 97 Oliveira, Rene, Representative, 86, 87, 93 Olivo, Dora, Representative, 4, 15–16, 43, 53, 104, 120–122, 130, 136, 137, 156–157 Index / 211 Paige, Rod, 58–59, 63–65 Pearson, Karl, 73, 116 Perot, H. Ross, 33, 74, 94 Porter, Theodore, 46, 49, 73 Privatization, 63–68, 78, 145, 153, 180n19 Progress, 98–100 Projections, 52, 90 Public education, 5, 25, 27, 67, 78–95, 145 Publicity, 51 “Pushing-out,” 55–61 Quetelet, Adolphe, 72, 89, 102, 106, 174n3 Race, 13, 20, 24–36, 56–57, 61, 109–116; disaggregation, 51, 163n4; essentialism, 13, 147–148; party politics, 31–32, 36; school...