Education: Constrains and Possibilities in Imagining New Ways to Assess Rights, Duties and Privileges

Author: Hervé Varenne     Consulting Editors: Diane Ravitch and Robert Wise

Political and social issues shape the ways in which education testing is conceived of and administered. Government provided education is especially a product of surrounding political and social issues. The author of this paper is asked to explore the shape that the duties of government to provide education should take, how to assess whether the means provided by governments are adequate, and what the alternatives are to current means that could extend into the 21st century. VIEW DRAFT