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Book Reviews : The Politics of Curriculum and Testing, Susan H. Fuhrman and Betty Malen (Eds.) London: The Falmer Press, 1991, 278 pp

Margaret Jorgensen Educational Testing Service, Suite 400, 1979 Lakeside Parkway, Tucker, GA 30084. My perspective as a reviewer of The Politics of Curriculum and Testing is that of a measurement and evaluation professional with a rapidly increasing involvement in innovative assessment methods, particularly as appropriate for schools involved in restructuring. My interest in reviewing this text was stimulated by my experience with the politics of change in the schools. Because of this perspective, I sought to find an organizational framework to guide my assimilation of the rapidly changing rhetoric and practice of accountability in the schools. The editors present The Politics of Curriculum and Testing as an anthology of papers focused around ’core concerns’: (a) the development, implementation, and assessment of policies that affect what should be taught in schools and to whom, how instruction should be carried out, and who should decide these matters; (b) the forms and effects of governmental action, that is, the nature of the instruments and symbols government selects or combines to influence individuals and institutions and the manner in which various governmental interventions penetrate practice and operate to promote (or impede) particular policy objectives; (c) the ways in which policy proc-