High stakes: poverty, testing, and failure in American schools

The realities of an underfunded school

September: the children we teach

October: regulating teaching

November: drugs, poverty, and test scores

December: "clamp down"

January: test preparation, the pace quickens

February: pep rallies for tests

March: test-day traumas

April: freedom to teach and learn

May: "I don't want to spend my time on paperwork"

How can we build a better future? Recommendations for policy change

Today a nation of testing.