Standardized Minds

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "Standardized Minds" dramatically shows how an unhealthy and enduring obsession with intelligence testing affects everyone. Drawing creative solutions from the headlines and front lines! Sacks demonstrates proven alternatives to such testing! and details a plan to make the American meritocracy legitimate and fair. Zusammenfassung 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.