Peter Sacks
Books and Essays by Peter SacksBooks
Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education (Look for it in May 2007 from the University of California Press)
While we often hear about the growing economic divide between the rich and the poor in America, Tearing Down the Gates locates the fountainhead of these growing economic disparities, our education system, and shows how the widening class divide results in an untold loss of human talent that will derail the American Dream --not just for some, but for us all. Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change it (Perseus Publishing)
A critical examination of America's 'testing culture' in schools, higher education, and the workplace, and how the American meritocracy can be more fair for all citizens. Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America (Open Court).
An inquiry into "postmodern" American culture and its sometimes corrosive effects on qualilty in higher education. Essays and Commentary
How Colleges Perpetuate Inequality
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 12, 2007 "The Geography of Privilege"
Essay in the Spring, 2004, issue of Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice Class Rules: the Fiction of Egalitarian Higher Education
From the Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education, July 25, 2003. "Class Struggle"
Review essay in The Nation, May 5, 2003. "The GRE and Me: Prestige Versus Quality in American Higher Education"
Essay appears in the Spring 2003 issue of Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice "Turning Schools into Profit Centers"
From the Jan. 8, 2003, issue of Education Week "A Nation at Risk"
Review essay of In Schools We Trust by Deborah Meier in The Nation, Nov. 18, 2002. "On Changing the SAT: A Contrarian's View of Our 'Culture of Standardized Testing.'
Education Week, June 5, 2002. "Testing Times in Higher Ed"
A review essay on the book, Fair Game?, by Rebecca Zwick for The Nation. "Pseudo-meritocracy"
The Boston Review, December/January 2001 "How Admissions Tests Hinder Access to Graduate and Professional Schools."
The Chronicle of Higher Education (Chronicle Review), June 8, 2001. "Predictable Losers in Testing Schemes"
The School Administrator, Dec. 2000 |
"Predictable Losers in Testing Schemes"For nearly two decades policymakers have been engaged in a massive and unprecedented social experiment on our schoolchildren, one with enormous costs and unproven benefits. This experiment has been launched on a dubious proposition--that largely bureaucratic solutions, consisting of state-imposed standards, more standardized testing and harsher sanctions attached to test results, will fundamentally raise the academic achievement of all schoolchildren and lead to a more prosperous and productive citizenry. (From the School Administrator, Dec. 2000.) |
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