Title A measure of failure : the political origins of standardized testing / Mark J. Garrison.

Publication Info.	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 140 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	A measure of failure -- The nature and function of standards -- Academic achievement and ability as forms of vertical classification -- Standardized tests as markers of social value -- The rise of public education: the impulse to mark achievement and ability -- Achievement testing: the case of Horace Mann -- Intelligence testing: the case of Alfred Binet -- Political origins of testing -- The failure of testing.
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Subject	Achievement tests -- United States -- History.
	Achievement tests.
	United States.
	History.
	Education -- Standards -- United States -- History.
	Education -- Standards.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Garrison, Mark J., 1968- Measure of failure. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009 9781438427775 1438427778 (DLC) 2008051366 (OCoLC)277142672
ISBN	9781441624086 (electronic book)
	1441624082 (electronic book)