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  • Higher Admissions

    The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing

    by Marvin Krislov, Prudence Carter, Nicholas Lemann, Patricia Gándara ...
    Series series Our Compelling Interests
    How to make American higher education fairerIn 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 world’s first mass higher education system—and served to promote the idea that the United States was becoming a “meritocracy” in which ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Next Twenty-five Years

    Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States and South Africa

    by David Lee Featherman, Marvin Krislov, Martin Hall ...
    "Ambitious, provocative, and wide-ranging, this rich collection of essays from U.S. and South African perspectives reflects the thinking of thoughtful advocates of affirmative action."---William G. Bowen, President Emeritus, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and President Emeritus, Princeton University"Thoughtful commentary from outstanding experts on affirmative action’s future in two countries ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Collected Letters of Henry Northrup Castle

    by Henry Northrup Castle ...
    George Herbert Mead, one of America’s most important and influential philosophers, a founder of pragmatism, social psychology, and symbolic interactionism, was also a keen observer of American culture and early modernism. In the period from the 1870s to 1895, Henry Northrup Castle maintained a correspondence with family members and with Mead—his best friend at Oberlin College and brother-in-law ... Read more

    $44.99 USD