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Tables of Contents for Standardized Minds
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vii
List of Acronyms
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction
1
4
Meritocracy's Crooked Yardstick
5
12
Inventing Intelligence: The Origins of Mental Measurement
17
18
Babes in Test Land: The Sorting Begins
35
30
Crusade: Rise of the Test-Driven Accountability Machine in Our Schools
65
30
Crime and Punishment: How the Accountability Machine Hurts Schoolchildren
95
22
Great American Dumb-Down: How the Accountability Machine Harms Schools
117
36
Do No Harm: Stopping the Damage to American Schools
153
14
Unnatural Selection: Testing in the American Workplace
167
34
Standardized Minds: Thinking Styles and the Testing Game
201
20
The Big Business of Testing
221
10
Authentic Achievement: Assessing Performance in American Schools
231
28
Harmful Admissions: Why the Meritocracy Needs Fixing
259
32
Beyond the SAT: Merit that Matters
291
26
Notes
317
18
Index
335