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The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy

By Nicholas Lemann, Nicholas Lemann (Afterword)
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By Nicholas Lemann, Nicholas Lemann (Afterword)
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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 education? The Big Test reveals the ideas, people, and politics behind a fifty-year-old utopian social experiment that changed this country. Combining vibrant storytelling, vivid portraiture, and thematic analysis, Lemann shows why this experiment ...

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