How Testing Came to Dominate American Schools The History of Educational Assessment

Name: How Testing Came to Dominate American Schools The History of Educational Assessment
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ISBN: 9780820472553

ISBN-10: 0820472557

ISBN-13: 9780820472553

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gerard Giordano

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List price: $48.90
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 4/26/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 9.00" wide x 6.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




Scientists nurture testing



Educators adapt to standardized tests



Military backing for tests



Entrepreneurs create an industry



Early twentieth-century politicians embrace testing



Charges of racism



Continuing criticism



Conservatives reap the harvest


Postscript : unrelenting growth of the testing industry