The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy: A History of the educational testing establishment

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MERITOCRACY

The story of the SAT and standardized testing.

The brilliant book that shows us for the first time the ideas, the people, and the politics behind the fifty-year old system that determines the course of Americans' lives.

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"This story is compelling in itself, but Lemann's exploration of how the politics of American meritocracy turn on the issue of race makes his history absolutely indispensable to current affirmative action debates."
-- Publishers Weekly