Standardized Minds - The High Price Of America's Testing Culture And What We Can Do To Change It (Paperback, New ed)

This text is an examination of the ways in which standardized tests sustain the privileged and punish the poor, complete with a plan for meaningful change in schools and in the workplace. 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 shows how an 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.

General

Imprint:	Da Capo Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2011
First published:	December 2001
Authors:	Peter Sacks
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	364
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7382-0433-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-7382-0433-1
Barcode:	9780738204338

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