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Tearing down the gates: confronting the class divide in American Education
EDITOR'S NOTE: At the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the 2009 Frederic W. Ness Book Award was presented...
Liberal Education, 06/22/09 by Peter Sacks · More from publication -
Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications
Abstract.- Leaf mass per area (M^sub A^) is a central ecological trait that is intercorrelated with leaf life span, photosynthetic rate, nutrient...
Paleobiology, 10/01/07 by Royer, Dana L; Sack, Lawren; Wilf, Peter; Lusk, Christopher H; Jordan, Gregory J; Niinemets, Ãlo; Wright, Ian J; Westoby, Mark; Cariglino, Bárbara; Coley, Phyllis D; Cutter, Asher D; Johnson, Kirk R; Labandeira, Conrad C; Moles, Angela T; Palmer, Matthe · More from publication -
Class struggle.(Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College)(Book Review)
The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College. By Jacques Steinberg. Viking. 292 pp. $25.95. The Early Admissions Game:...
Nation, The, 05/05/03 by Sacks, Peter · More from publication -
A nation at risk.(In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization)(Book Review)
In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization. By Deborah Meier. Beacon. 200 pp. $23. A year...
Nation, The, 11/18/02 by Sacks, Peter · More from publication -
Test patterns
Test Patterns Peter Sacks Fair Game? The Use of Standardized Tests in Higher Education, Rebecca Zwick, Routledge, 2002, $19.95 The "high-stakes"...
New England Journal of Higher Education, The, 10/01/02 by Sacks, Peter · More from publication -
Testing Times in Higher Ed.(Fair Game? The use of Standardized Admissions Tests in Higher Education) (book review)
Fair Game? The use of Standardized Admissions Tests in Higher Education. By Rebecca Zwick. Routledge. 228 pp. Paper $19.95. The SAT has been...
Nation, The, 06/24/02 by Sacks, Peter · More from publication -
High-stakes sandwich
Don't Build School-College Collaboration on More Tests Higher education authorities are embracing the latest movement in education known as...
New England Journal of Higher Education, The, 10/01/01 by Sacks, Peter · More from publication -
SAT--A Failing Test.(the future of standardized tests for college entry)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Educators have long known the rap sheet on the SAT, the college entrance exam that millions of young people have taken as a rite of passage for...
Nation, The, 04/02/01 by SACKS, PETER · More from publication -
Refuge - poem
Circling the mountain cities Circling the mountain cities of another country-- thin wolf running with the snow between...
Progressive, The, 02/01/99 by Peter Sacks · More from publication -
No...generation X is not OK.(Cover Story)
Educators like to believe that despite the changing of generations students maintain roughly the same basic attitudes toward hard work, success,...
American Enterprise, The, 01/01/98 by Sacks, Peter · More from publication
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