An indictment of standardized testing that challenges common assumptions about high-stakes assessment through a series of critical essays and research.
Emma McMain is an Assistant Professor in Educational Statistics and Research Methods at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR. Her teaching and scholarship explore how daily discourses (ways of sense-making about the world) and affects (ways of sensing the world) shape our identities, relationships, and social practices. Much of her work focuses on the potential of social and emotional learning (SEL) to both foster and undermine equity.
Student and organizer of Conference on Education and the Political System: a conference set to be held in annually regarding critical pedagogy and its relations to the political process