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Standardized minds : the high price of America's testing culture and what we can do to change it

Author: Peter Sacks
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Books, ©1999.
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"Standardized Minds dramatically shows how our unhealthy and enduring obsession with intelligence testing affects us all, from the day we enter kindergarten to when we might apply for a job or seek a new profession. 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."--BOOK  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Sacks, Peter.
Standardized minds.
Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Books, c1999
(OCoLC)622359748
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Sacks
ISBN: 0738202436 9780738202433 0738204331 9780738204338
OCLC Number: 43387232
Description: xii, 351 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Meritocracy's crooked yardstick --
Inventing intelligence: the origins of mental measurement --
Babes in test land: the sorting begins --
Crusade: rise of the test-driven accountability machine in our schools --
Crime and punishment: how the accountability machine hurts schoolchildren --
Great American dumb-down: how the accountability machine harms schools --
Do no harm: stopping the damage to American schools --
Unnatural selection: testing in the American workplace --
Standardized minds: thinking styles and the testing game --
The big business of testing --
Authentic achievement: assessing performance in American schools --
Harmful admissions: why the meritocracy needs fixing --
Beyond the SAT: merit that matters.
Responsibility: Peter Sacks.
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"Standardized Minds dramatically shows how our unhealthy and enduring obsession with intelligence testing affects us all, from the day we enter kindergarten to when we might apply for a job or seek a new profession. 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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