The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life, Heckman James J., Humphries John Eric, Kautz Tim

Автор: Heckman James J., Humphries John Eric, Kautz Tim
Название: The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life
ISBN: 022632480X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226324807
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to identify weaknesses in student knowledge. The GED is an achievement test used to grant the status of high school graduate to anyone who passes it. GED recipients currently account for 12 percent of all high school credentials issued each year in the United States. But do achievement tests predict success in life?

The Myth of Achievement Tests shows that achievement tests like the GED fail to measure important life skills. James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Tim Kautz, and a group of scholars offer an in-depth exploration of how the GED came to be used throughout the United States and why our reliance on it is dangerous. Drawing on decades of research, the authors show that, while GED recipients score as well on achievement tests as high school graduates who do not enroll in college, high school graduates vastly outperform GED recipients in terms of their earnings, employment opportunities, educational attainment, and health. The authors show that the differences in success between GED recipients and high school graduates are driven by character skills. Achievement tests like the GED do not adequately capture character skills like conscientiousness, perseverance, sociability, and curiosity. These skills are important in predicting a variety of life outcomes. They can be measured, and they can be taught.

Using the GED as a case study, the authors explore what achievement tests miss and show the dangers of an educational system based on them. They call for a return to an emphasis on character in our schools, our systems of accountability, and our national dialogue.

Contributors
Eric Grodsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Andrew Halpern-Manners, Indiana University Bloomington
Paul A. LaFontaine, Federal Communications Commission
Janice H. Laurence, Temple University
Lois M. Quinn, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Pedro L. Rodr guez, Institute of Advanced Studies in Administration
John Robert Warren, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Автор: Sehat David
Название: The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Updated Edition
ISBN: 0190247215 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190247218
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Sehat offers an engrossing and wide-ranging argument that overturns much of what we think we know about American history.

Автор: Fowler Wilton B., Fowler W. B.
Название: British-American Relations 1917-1918: The Role of Sir William Wiseman. Supplementary Volume to the Papers of Woodrow Wilson
ISBN: 0691621691 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691621692
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Throughout the First World War Woodrow Wilson considered Britain`s ambitions in the war as objectionable as Germany`s. He repeatedly expressed distrust of the British government`s motives; for their part, the British chafed at Wilson`s idealism and despised his aloofness from the Allies. Sir William Wiseman played an extraordinary part as the behin

Автор: Hazen Robert M., Hazen Margaret Hindle
Название: Keepers of the Flame: The Role of Fire in American Culture, 1775-1925
ISBN: 0691606633 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691606637
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: "For, Lo! We live in an Iron Age--In the age of Steam and Fire!" wrote a poet mesmerized by the engines that were transforming American transportation, agriculture, and industry during his lifetime. Indeed, by the nineteenth century fire had become America`s leitmotif--for good and for ill. "Keeping the flame" was deadly serious: even the slightest

Автор: Levinson Julie
Название: American Success Myth on Film
ISBN: 1137482524 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137482525
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films have played in the ongoing cultural discourse about success and work in America.

Автор: Sutherland Daniel E.
Название: A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War
ISBN: 1469606887 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469606880
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, <em>A Savage Conflict</em> is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Daniel Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large toll on the Confederate war effort by weakening support for state and national governments and diminishing the trust citizens had in their officials to protect them.