Standardized Minds: The High Price Of America's Testing Culture And What We Can Do To Change It - Softcover

Sacks, Peter

 
9780738204338: Standardized Minds: The High Price Of America's Testing Culture And What We Can Do To Change It
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0738204331 ISBN 13: 9780738204338
Verlag: Da Capo Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

We've been told time and time again that standardized tests aren't perfect but that they're the best tool we have for gauging aptitude and achievement. Is this really true? What are the flaws of such testing? Why is your father's occupation a better predictor of SAT scores than virtually any other factor? And, most important, what can we do to hold one another accountable to standards at all levels of schools and in the workplace?Standardized Minds dramatically shows how our unhealthy and enduring obsession with intelligence testing affects us all, from the day we enter kindergarten to the day we apply for that corporate job. Drawing creative solutions from the headlines and the frontlines, Sacks demonstrates proven alternatives to such testing and details a plan to make the American meritocracy legitimate and fair.

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Peter Sacks is a journalist and essayist. His essays on education and American culture have appeared in Change, Thought & Action, The American Enterprise, and the New York Times. He lives in Boise, Idaho.

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Verlag
Da Capo Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0738204331
ISBN 13 
9780738204338
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
363
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