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A Measure of Failure - The Political Origins of Standardized Testing (Hardcover, New)
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A Measure of Failure - The Political Origins of Standardized Testing (Hardcover, New)
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How did standardized tests become the measure of performance in our
public schools? In this compelling work, Mark J. Garrison attempts
to answer this question by analyzing the development of
standardized testing, from the days of Horace Mann and Alfred Binet
to the current scene. Approaching the issue from a sociohistorical
perspective, the author demonstrates the ways standardized testing
has been used to serve the interests of the governing class by
attaching a performance-based value to people and upholding
inequality in American society. The book also discusses the
implications that a restructuring of standardized testing would
have on the future of education, specifically what it could do to
eliminate the measure of individual worth based on performance.
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