Standardized Minds: The High Price Of America's Testing Culture And What We Can Do To Change It

Sacks, Peter

ISBN 10: 0738204331 / ISBN 13: 9780738204338

Published by Da Capo Press, 2001

About this Item

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. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528. . 2001. First Thus. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9780738204338

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Standardized Minds: The High Price Of America's Testing Culture And What We Can Do To Change It
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738204331
• ISBN 13: 9780738204338
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 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.

About the Author

Peter Sacks is a journalist and essayist. His essays on education and American culture have appeared in Change, Thought & Action, The American Enterprise, and the New York Times. He lives in Boise, Idaho.