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David Hursh’s current research focuses on the rise and consequences of high-stakes testing in education (such as in No Child Left Behind) and the political rationale for those reforms. His most recent book, High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning (Rowman & Littlefield), examines both the recent and historical impetus behind standardized testing and proposes how such forces might be resisted and what more authentic assessment and pedagogy might look like. Since its publication, he has given talks based on his book to numerous university and community audiences.
Besides his recent book, Hursh has published three other books and over 65 book chapters and journal articles. Some of his recent articles have appeared in the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, TheBritish Educational Research Journal, Policy Futures in Education, and Race, Ethnicity, and Education. He guest edited a special issue of Policy Futures in Education on neoliberalism, which appeared in spring 2007.
He either serves or has served on numerous editorial boards, including both sections of the American Educational Research Journal, Policy Futures in Education, Theory and Research in Social Education, and The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies.
In April 2006 he gave a Presidential Invited address, “Carry it on: Fighting for progressive change in neoliberal times,” at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Over the past four years he has given invited presentations at the following universities in Britain: Oxford, London, Bristol, Glasgow, Northampton, Sussex, and Plymouth. He has also given invited presentations on teacher education and school reform in Australia, New Zealand, and Chile .
Hursh’s teaching interests focus on connecting the political, ethical, and epistemological aspects of teaching and curriculum. His recent teaching for the Warner School includes Teaching, Curriculum, and Change, Race, Class, Gender, and Disability in American Education, Elementary Social Studies, and Action Research.
He is active in many local and international educational reform efforts, including Rochester ’s Coalition for Common Sense in Education, an organization committed to critiquing and organizing against the use of high-stakes testing in schools.
Lastly, he is a frequent commentator on educational issues in Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle and on Bob Smith’s 1370 Connection, a radio talk show on the local PBS network.
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