Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing by Krislov, Marvin

Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing

How to make American higher education fairer In the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen...
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Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing by Krislov, Marvin

Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing

$51.98

Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing

$51.98
Author: Marvin Krislov
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

How to make American higher education fairer

In the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development of the world's first mass higher education system--and served to promote the idea that the United States was becoming a "meritocracy" in which admission to selective higher education institutions would be granted to those who most deserved it. In Higher Admissions, Nicholas Lemann reflects on the state of America's aspirational meritocracy and the enduring value and meaning of standardized testing.

Lemann writes that the anticipation of the Supreme Court's 2023 decision banning affirmative action, plus the Covid pandemic, led hundreds of universities to stop requiring standardized admissions tests; now many colleges and universities are reinstituting test requirements. The country is preoccupied with the admissions policies of the most selective universities, but Lemann redirects our attention to an alternate path that American higher education could have taken, and can still take--one that emphasizes selective admission less and a significant upgrade of the entire higher education system more. Lemann argues that to improve the state of higher education overall, we should focus not on the narrow chokepoint of admission to highly selective colleges, but on efforts to create as much meaningful opportunity for flourishing in our vast higher education system for as many people as possible. The book includes thoughtful and challenging responses from Marvin Krislov, Patricia G?ndara, and Prudence Carter.

Author: Marvin Krislov, Nicholas Lemann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 09/17/2024
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780691246765


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2024

About the Author
Nicholas Lemann is a staff writer at the New Yorker and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where he is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism. He is the author of Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream, The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, and other books.

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