Standardized Minds

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

By: Peter Sacks

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Paperback | 11 January 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Acronyms	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Meritocracy's Crooked Yardstick	p. 5
Inventing Intelligence: The Origins of Mental Measurement	p. 17
Babes in Test Land: The Sorting Begins	p. 35
Crusade: Rise of the Test-Driven Accountability Machine in Our Schools	p. 65
Crime and Punishment: How the Accountability Machine Hurts Schoolchildren	p. 95
Great American Dumb-Down: How the Accountability Machine Harms Schools	p. 117
Do No Harm: Stopping the Damage to American Schools	p. 153
Unnatural Selection: Testing in the American Workplace	p. 167
Standardized Minds: Thinking Styles and the Testing Game	p. 201
The Big Business of Testing	p. 221
Authentic Achievement: Assessing Performance in American Schools	p. 231
Harmful Admissions: Why the Meritocracy Needs Fixing	p. 259
Beyond the SAT: Merit that Matters	p. 291
Notes	p. 317
Index	p. 335
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