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No Child Left Behind and accountability programs generally operate via assessmentdriven instruction causing a deprofessionalization of teachers and a disengagement of students. Chris Gallagher offers us an alternative: instructiondriven assessment with teachers as the primary assessment instrument. It looks like a way to restore teachers as professionals and to restore students as engaged learners . . . and it looks doable.Gerald W. Bracey, author of Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered This is the most engaging, exciting, and useful book on assessment I have read in a long time. Chris Gallagher draws on the rich experiences of Nebraska educators to show why and how that states teachers are leading a profoundly important assessment revolution.Monty Neill, Executive Director, FairTest (National Center for Fair Open Testing) Reclaiming Assessment details a more humane, more educationally sound way to conduct assessments than what is called for in national and state testbased accountability policies. It examines how Nebraska rejected harmful, highstakes testing in favor of teacherdesigned assessments through a groundbreaking localcontrol assessment system. Presenting vital conceptual details and practical information for any state, district, or school committed to finding something better for their students than filling ovals, Chris Gallagher focuses in on what makes Nebraskas plan work and how it can transform and has transformed classrooms and policies. In particular he homes in on four key aspects of successful teacherled assessment: engaging teachers by reinvesting them with classroom and curricularlevel decisionmaking power engaging students through meaningful classroom assessment engaging colleagues through a new, energizing model of professional development engaging parents and other community members through schoolcommunity projects. In each instance, Gallagher combines lessons from Nebraskas schoolimprovement program with 'portraits of practice,' vignettes written by Nebraska educators that give a closeup look at how the states assessment system works, why it works, the settings in which its making a difference, and the leadership styles that match its goals best.Both a challenge to educators to take back assessment from politicized, toplevel bureaucrats and a call to create a new agenda for contemporary education, Reclaiming Assessment is an ideal starting point for your efforts to return to studentcentered, not testcentered assessment. Put your trust in educators abilities to observe and know their students, then read Reclaiming Assessment, adopt an assessment model thats already succeeding in hundreds of schools, and start improving how your students are assessed today.
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