Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It

We've been told time and time again that standardized tests aren't perfect but that they're the best...
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Author: Peter Sacks
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Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It by Sacks, Peter

Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It

$53.13

Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It

$53.13
Author: Peter Sacks
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Peter Sacks
Publisher: Westview Publishing
Published: 01/11/2011
Pages: 364
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.16w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780738204338

About the Author
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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