Raising Standards or Raising Barriers?: Inequality and High Stakes Testing in Public Education

John H. Bishop is a member of the Department of Human Resource Studies at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University Marguerite Clarke is assistant professor of research in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College Keith Gayler was a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Robert M. Hauser is Vilas Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Jay P. Heubert is associate professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, Mindy L. Kornhaber is the director of research for K-12 education at the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and is a research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Henry M. Levin is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University George Madaus is the Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College and a senior fellow with the National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy Ferran Mane is an assistant professor at the Rovira i Virgily University (Spain) Linda McNeil is a professor of education and has been codirector of the Rice University Center for Education, a center for teacher development and research, since 1988 Gary Natriello is professor of sociology and education in the Department of Human Development at Teachers College, Columbia University Monty Neill is the executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing Gary Orfield is professor of education and social policy at Harvard University Aaron M. Pallas is professor of sociology and education in the Department of Human Development at Teachers College, Columbia University. Angela Valenzuela is associate professor of education and of Mexican American studies at the University of Texas at AustinGary Orfield is the author of 'Raising Standards or Raising Barriers?: Inequality and High Stakes Testing in Public Education', published 2001 under ISBN 9780870784514 and ISBN 087078451X.