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There are numerous sources appropriate for your research in the Undergraduate Library's Reference Collection. Those listed on this page provide excellent starting points for your research. If you need help identifying other sources, Ask a Librarian.

• Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools by Deborah Meier 379.260973 M319 (2004). A very political and fiery manifesto that criticizes the NCLB Act, the "drill and kill" brand of testing it promotes, and calls for alternatives that will place accountability on the shoulders of lawmakers, not the children. Focuses on the NCLB's selected view of equality, the privatization of education, and possible alternative approaches.
• Measurement and Assessment in Teaching by Robert L. Linn 371.26 G89m2005 (2005). Intended to be used as a textbook in education classes, but it can provide some insight into how tests are being used and taught in classes.
• Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It by Peter Sacks 371.262 Sa147s (2001). Offers a unique perspective on the debate over standardized testing. Sacks connects the prevalence of these tests in modern society to the earliest forms of intelligence tests that were designed specifically to prove that certain races and cultures were inferior. The impact of these tests today, he claims, are more far reaching than we often know, affecting not just how students are judged in school, but often how they are judged by their parents and how they see themselves.