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Standardized Testing: Meritocracy's Crooked Yardstick.
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Sacks, Peter – Change, 1997
Discusses the entrenched nature of standardized testing in the educational system, the anti-testing movement and its supporting evidence, shifts in policy since 1980, current trends, the investment of publishers and test-makers in standardized testing, the true costs of standardized testing, and specifically "American" characteristics of…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Costs, Educational Policy, Educational Trends