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| ISBN: | 9781400839575
1400839572
9780691149288
0691149283
1283169002
9781283169004
9786613169006
6613169005
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 mak.
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| Other form: | Print version: Wainer, Howard. Uneducated guesses. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691149288
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