The Scandal of Standardized Tests

The Scandal of Standardized Tests
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Publisher : Teachers College Press
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780807778210
ISBN-13 : 0807778214
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Scandal of Standardized Tests by : Joseph A. (ed.) Soares

This update to SAT Wars provides new evidence in the case against standardized college entry tests, including the experiences of test-optional colleges. The Scandal of Standardized Tests sheds significant light on key problems such as: Are the tests stronger proxies for race and family income today than they were 20 years ago? Does going test-optional promote racial and economic diversity? Are there any differences in academic records between students admitted without test scores and those with them? How does testing figure into race-sensitive admissions legal controversies? Why is the College Board’s “environmental dashboard” inadequate as a way to create a fair playing field? How are the odds of attending and graduating from college stacked against low-income youths and racial minorities? What does the FBI Varsity Blues sting tell us about college admissions in America? Contributors: Jon Boeckenstedt, Michael DeWitt, Paul Fain, Valerie W. Franks, Saul Geiser, Philip Handwerk, William C. Hiss, William C. Kidder, Jay Rosner, Robert A. Schaeffer, Joseph A. Soares, Steve Syverson.

SAT Wars

SAT Wars
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Publisher : Teachers College Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9780807770962
ISBN-13 : 0807770965
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis SAT Wars by : Joseph A. Soares

What can a college admissions officer safely predict about the future of a 17-year-old? Are the best and the brightest students the ones who can check off the most correct boxes on a multiple-choice exam? Or are there better ways of measuring ability and promise? In this penetrating and revealing look at high-stakes standardized admissions tests, Joseph Soares demonstrates the far-reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change. SAT Wars presents a roadmap for rethinking college admissions that moves us past the statistically weak and socially divisive SAT/ACT. The author advocates for evaluation tools with a greater focus on what youth actually accomplish in high school as a more reliable indicator of qualities that really matter in one's life and to one's ability to contribute to society. This up-to-date book features contributions by well-known experts, including a piece from Daniel Golden, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in the Wall Street Journal on admissions, and a chapter on alternative tests from Robert Sternberg, who is the worlds most-cited living authority on educational research. As we continue to debate the use and misuse of standardized testing, SAT Wars will be important reading for a wide audience, including college administrators and faculty, high school guidance counselors, education journalists, and parents.

None of the Above

None of the Above
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780807022207
ISBN-13 : 0807022209
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis None of the Above by : Shani Robinson

An insider’s account of the infamous Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal that scapegoated black employees for problems rooted in the education reform movement. In March of 2013, 35 educators in the Atlanta Public Schools were charged with racketeering and conspiracy—the same charges used to bring down the American mafia—for allegedly changing students’ answers on standardized tests. All but one was black. The youngest of the accused, Shani Robinson, had taught for only 3 years and was a new mother when she was wrongfully convicted and faced up to 25 years in prison. She and her coauthor, journalist Anna Simonton, look back to show how black children in Atlanta were being deprived long before some teachers allegedly changed the answers on their students’ tests. Stretching all the way back to Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed segregation in public schools, to examining the corporate-led education reform movement, the policing of black and brown citizens, and widening racial and economic disparities in Atlanta, Robinson and Simonton reveal how real estate moguls and financiers were lining their pockets with the education dollars that should have been going to the classroom.

The Pedagogy of Standardized Testing

The Pedagogy of Standardized Testing
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9781137486653
ISBN-13 : 1137486651
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Pedagogy of Standardized Testing by : Arlo Kempf

Based on a large-scale international study of teachers in Los Angeles, Chicago, Ontario, and New York, this book illustrates the ways increased use of high-stakes standardized testing is fundamentally changing education in the US and Canada with a negative overall impact on the way teachers teach and students learn. Standardized testing makes understanding students' strengths and weaknesses more difficult, and class time spent on testing consumes scarce time and attention needed to support the success of all students—further disadvantaging ELLs, students with exceptionalities, low income, and racially minoritized students.

Rethinking the SAT

Rethinking the SAT
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 391
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ISBN-10 : 9781134000111
ISBN-13 : 1134000111
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Rethinking the SAT by : Rebecca Zwick

Rethinking the SAT is a unique presentation of the latest thoughts and research findings of key individuals in the world of college admissions, including the president of the largest public university system in the U.S., as well as the presidents of the two companies that sponsor college admissions tests in the U.S. The contributors address not only the pros and cons of the SAT itself, but the broader question of who should go to college in the twenty-first century.

The Big Test

The Big Test
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 424
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0374527512
ISBN-13 : 9780374527518
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Big Test by : Nicholas Lemann

A history of the Educational Testing Service and the attempt to form an elite by sorting students, "fairly and dispassionately."

Unacceptable

Unacceptable
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9780593087732
ISBN-13 : 0593087739
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Unacceptable by : Melissa Korn

FORBES TOP 10 HIGHER EDUCATION BOOKS OF 2020 The riveting true story behind the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, a cautionary tale of parenting gone wrong, the system that enabled families to veer so far off course, and the mastermind who made it all happen. When federal prosecutors dropped the bombshell of Operation Varsity Blues, it broke open the crimes of exclusive universities and wealthy families all over the country, shattering the myth of American meritocracy. In Unacceptable, veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz dig deep into how otherwise smart, loving parents became caught up in scandal, led through the side door by one man: college whisperer Rick Singer. Unacceptable traces how, over decades, the charismatic Singer easily reeled in parents hoping to guarantee top educations for their children, and exploited a system rigged against regular people. Exploring the status obsession that seduced entitled parents in search of an edge, Korn and Levitz unfurl a scheme that entangled more than fifty conspirators, from wealthy CEOs to famous actresses, leading to imprisonments, ruined careers, and terminated enrollments. An eye-opening account of corruption in America’s most exclusive institutions, Unacceptable tells the story of helicopter parenting, coddled teens, and the man who thought he couldn’t be caught. Detailing Singer’s steady rise and dramatic fall, Korn and Levitz expose the ugly underbelly of elite college admissions, and the devastating consequences of buying success.

The Testing Charade

The Testing Charade
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9780226408712
ISBN-13 : 022640871X
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Testing Charade by : Daniel Koretz

America's leading expert in educational testing and measurement openly names the failures caused by today's testing policies and provides a blueprint for doing better. 6 x 9.

The Price of Admission (Updated Edition)

The Price of Admission (Updated Edition)
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Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780307497376
ISBN-13 : 0307497372
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Price of Admission (Updated Edition) by : Daniel Golden

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of superprivilege.”—Michael Wolff, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Fire and Fury, in the New York Times Book Review NOW WITH NEW REPORTING ON OPERATION VARSITY BLUES In this explosive and prescient book, based on three years of investigative report­ing, Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Golden shatters the myth of an American meri­tocracy. Naming names, along with grades and test scores, Golden lays bare a corrupt system in which middle-class and working-class whites and Asian Ameri­cans are routinely passed over in favor of wealthy white students with lesser credentials—children of alumni, big donors, and celebrities. He reveals how a family donation got Jared Kushner into Harvard, and how colleges comply with Title IX by giving scholarships to rich women in “patrician sports” like horseback riding and crew. With a riveting new chapter on Operation Varsity Blues, based on original re­porting, The Price of Admission is a must-read—not only for parents and students with a personal stake in college admissions but also for those disturbed by the growing divide between ordinary and privileged Americans. Praise for The Price of Admission “A disturbing exposé of the influence that wealth and power still exert on admission to the nation’s most prestigious universities.”—The Washington Post “Deserves to become a classic.”—The Economist

The Power of Privilege

The Power of Privilege
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0804756384
ISBN-13 : 9780804756389
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis The Power of Privilege by : Joseph A. Soares

An examination of why acceptance into America's most prestigious colleges remains beyond the reach of most students except those from high-income professional families.