Challenging Status Quo Retrenchment

This year (2012) marks ten years of No Child Left Behind and the U.S. federal government's official designation of what qualifies as "e;scientifically based research"e; (SBR) in education. Combined, these two policies have resulted in a narrowing of education via standardization and high stakes testing (Au, 2007) as well as the curtailment of forms of inquiry that are deemed legitimate for examini...