The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann

The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy

Nicholas Lemann

416 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction education history sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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