The Resource Standardized minds : the high price of America's testing culture and what we can do to change it, Peter Sacks
Standardized minds : the high price of America's testing culture and what we can do to change it, Peter Sacks
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The item Standardized minds : the high price of America's testing culture and what we can do to change it, Peter Sacks represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library.
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- Summary
- "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."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 351 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780738204338
- Label
- Standardized minds : the high price of America's testing culture and what we can do to change it
- Title
- Standardized minds
- Title remainder
- the high price of America's testing culture and what we can do to change it
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Sacks
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sacks, Peter
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Educational tests and measurements
- Education
- Academic achievement
- Academic achievement
- Education
- Educational tests and measurements
- United States
- Label
- Standardized minds : the high price of America's testing culture and what we can do to change it, Peter Sacks
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-334) and index
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- 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
- Control code
- 43387232
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 351 pages
- Isbn
- 9780738204338
- Lccn
- 99068065
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)43387232
- Label
- Standardized minds : the high price of America's testing culture and what we can do to change it, Peter Sacks
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-334) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 43387232
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 351 pages
- Isbn
- 9780738204338
- Lccn
- 99068065
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)43387232
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