Uneducated guesses : using evidence to uncover misguided education policies
Uneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities. In this explosive book, Howard Wainer uses statistical evidence to show why some of t...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2011.
Palo Alto, Calif : ebrary 2011. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université Orléans et IFPM |
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Includes bibliographical references and index La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 194 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) corpus sciences de l'éducation |
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| Résumé: | Uneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities. In this explosive book, Howard Wainer uses statistical evidence to show why some of the most widely held beliefs in education today--and the policies that have resulted--are wrong. He shows why colleges that make the SAT optional for applicants end up with underperforming students and inflated national rankings, and why the push to substitute achievement tests for aptitude tests ma |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 194 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) corpus sciences de l'éducation |
| Format: | Nécessite un navigateur et un lecteur de fichier PDF |
| ISBN: | 9781400839575 |
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