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PeterSacks @ petersacks.org
| Description | : | Standardized Minds For A Complex World.
"Americans harbor the collective deceit that most of the necessary academic attributes of schools, school children, applicants to colleges and universities, and even prospective employees can be neatly summed up with a single number–a test score. Defenders of this system call it meritocracy. More likely it’s a pseudo-meritocracy, governed by a cult of measurement and the triumph of technocratic thinking. Many Americans believe in the comforting illusion that test scores permit their important institutions to rank, rate, and sort schools, students, and job applicants with nearly infallible precision. The numbers don’t lie–or so we like to think. What’s more, we’ve created a postmodern oddity in which one’s potential for real-life achievement in school or work has become more powerful and real than one’s actual achievement. We tend to forget that standardized tests are but distant and abstruse abstractions of the real world and all its rich complexity" http://bostonreview.net/BR25.6/sacks.html GOTO DifferentDrums GOTO StandardizedLameDuck GOTO InnovationByConformation GOTO Groupthink&Mainstream GOTO EvolutionaryRichnessByDifference |
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