Loss of the Creature: The Obscuring of Inclusivity in Classroom Discourse.

Illustrates the erosion of inclusive teacher-student interaction. Uses discourse analysis to compare K-12 classroom instructional practices before and after imposition of standardized testing. Illuminates the negative transformation of five inclusionary discursive practices. Notes, in an illustrative case, an "at-risk" student's effort to express his point is overridden by his teacher's well-meaning urgency to clean up his prose to meet testing expectations for literate language. (SG)