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Ep92:“The Score: Merit, Measurement, and the American School”
About what happens when a society takes a complicated human being—someone with potential, effort, curiosity, stress, family responsibilities, strengths, gaps, ambition, and fear—and tries to compress all of that into a number.And then gives that number power.This is the story of the SAT, the ACT, the people who built the modern testing system, the inequalities that shaped it, the data that complicates it, and the question now facing American higher education:When we say “merit,” what exactly are we measuring?
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