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

Peter Sacks

ISBN 10: 0738202436 / ISBN 13: 9780738202433

Edité par Cambridge: Perseus Books, 1999

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First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over quarter-bound black on yellow boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (1 kg); pp (xii) 351; Index; Bibliography; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #179683 ||.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do About It
• Éditeur: Cambridge: Perseus Books
• Date de parution: 1999
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0738202436
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780738202433
• Reliure: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Education

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Synopsis

A hard-hitting 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.. }Weve been told time and again that standardized tests arent perfect but that theyre the best tool we have to make important decisions. Is this really true? What are the flaws of such testing? Why is your fathers occupation a better predictor of SAT scores than virtually any other factor? Whose interests do these tests serve? 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. }