A Measure of Failure

A Measure of FailureAsks how and why standardized tests have become the ubiquitous standard by which educational achievement and intelligence are measured. Winner of the 2011 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association How did standardized tests become the measure of performance in our public schools? In this compelling work, Mark J. Garrison attempts to answer this question by analyzing the development of standardized testing, from the

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