The perfect test
By: Ron Dietel
Publisher: Sense Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rotterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9789460914768; 9789460914775
Subjects: Educational tests and measurements; Fiction
Description: "Some ten years from today, American schools have tried every possible education fad. Common national standards, year-round schools, takeover of school boards, and even the super-qualified teacher program have failed to improve low U.S. achievement on international assessments. That all changes when Grant and Jennifer Wilson, both Stanford Ph.D. graduates, create what they believe are the perfect tests. The Venus Assessment System, the first national tests in U.S. history, flip American education on its ear, making U.S. students number one in the world in math and science. But then Jennifer Wilson discovers a secret list of names, students who are exceptions to the high-stakes consequences of the test. So secret that some people are willing to kill for it."--Publisher's description.
Notes: "An education experiment that went terribly wrong..."--Cover.