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标题：Analyzing the New York Global History and Geography Exam
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作者：S. G. Grant
期刊名称：Education Policy Analysis Archives
印刷版ISSN：1068-2341
电子版ISSN：1068-2341
出版年度：2001
卷号：9
期号：0
页码：39
语种：English
出版社：Arizona State University
摘要：Education Week's report "Quality Counts" judges New York State's curriculum and assessment policy efforts to be an "A." Surface-level reviews such as "Quality Counts" tell something about the workings of state policy, but they are more useful as snapshots than as well-developed portraits of curriculum and assessment change. In this article, I analyze the new New York State Global History and Geography standards and tests using a set of social studies-specific criteria which inquire deeply into the implications for real instructional change. From that vantage, I argue that New York's policy efforts, while seemingly well-intentioned and reflective of surface-level change, fail to promote powerful teaching and learning in social studies. Teachers intent on producing ambitious teaching and learning will find little to interfere with their efforts. But as a set of reforms intended to encourage substantive change, the new global history test falls short.
关键词：Curriculum;New York;Geography;Social Studies;Policy