[PDF.85zc] The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy

The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy

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 | #122769 in Books |  2000-11-16 |  2000-11-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.89 x1.24 x6.19l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| The Big Test for American Democracy, too.|By Richard S. Dixon Jr.|Although this book is a bit too long and deviates into individual histories that are interesting, but not completely relevant to the main issue, the main ideas of Leman's book are tremendously important for any thinking American. Not really a history of the SAT, the book is more a history of post-war attitudes to|.com |Nicholas Lemann's The Big Test starts off as a look at how the SAT became an integral part of the college application process by telling the stories of men like Henry Chauncey and James Bryant Conant of Harvard University, who sought in the 1930s a

The widely acclaimed study of what's gone wrong in American higher education.

What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the SAT? Who invented it, and why? How did it acquire such a prominent and lasting position in American education? The Big Test reveals the ideas, people, and politics behind a fifty-year-old utopian social experiment that changed this country. Combining vibrant storytelling, vivid portraiture, and thematic...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy   |  Nicholas Lemann.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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