The Big Test : the secret history of the American meritocracy

The experiment-launched by James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, and Henry Chauncey, head of the brand-new Educational Testing Service (ETS)-was to use the then-young science of intelligence testing to assess and sort American students in order to create a new democratic elite that w...

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Main Author: Lemann, Nicholas
Format: Book
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Published: New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ