Higher Admissions (inbunden)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
176
Utgivningsdatum
2024-09-17
Förlag
Princeton University Press
Medarbetare
Krislov, Marvin (contributions)/Carter, Prudence (contributions)/Gndara, Patricia (contributions)/Krislov, Marvin (contributions)/Carter, Prudence (contributions)/Gndara, Patricia (contributions)/Krislov, Marvin (contributions)/Carter, Prudence (contributions)/Gndara, Patricia (contributions)
Illustrationer
1 table
Dimensioner
206 x 130 x 23 mm
Vikt
295 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780691246765

Higher Admissions

The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing

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How to make American higher education fairer In the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development of the worlds first mass higher education systemand served to promote the idea that the United States was becoming a meritocracy in which admission to selective higher education institutions would be granted to those who most deserved it. In Higher Admissions, Nicholas Lemann reflects on the state of Americas aspirational meritocracy and the enduring value and meaning of standardized testing. Lemann writes that the anticipation of the Supreme Courts 2023 decision banning affirmative action, plus the Covid pandemic, led hundreds of universities to stop requiring standardized admissions tests; now many colleges and universities are reinstituting test requirements. The country is preoccupied with the admissions policies of the most selective universities, but Lemann redirects our attention to an alternate path that American higher education could have taken, and can still takeone that emphasizes selective admission less and a significant upgrade of the entire higher education system more. Lemann argues that to improve the state of higher education overall, we should focus not on the narrow chokepoint of admission to highly selective colleges, but on efforts to create as much meaningful opportunity for flourishing in our vast higher education system for as many people as possible. The book includes thoughtful and challenging responses from Marvin Krislov, Patricia Gndara, and Prudence Carter.
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"With some selective colleges and universities reinstating the standardized SAT as an admissions criterion (after dropping the requirement during the Covid-19 pandemic) and with the Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action, [Lemanns] examination [of the SAT] is timely. . . . A well-informed critique." * Kirkus Reviews *

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Nicholas Lemann is a staff writer at the New Yorker and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where he is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism. He is the author of Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream, The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, and other books.