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100 1 $aLemann, Nicholas.
245 14 $aThe big test :$bthe secret history of the American meritocracy /$cNicholas Lemann.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c1999.
300 $aviii, 406 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aA history of the Educational Testing Service and the attempt to form an elite by sorting students, "fairly and dispassionately."
504 $aIncludes bibliography.
505 00 $tThe Moral Equivalent of Religion --$tHenry Chauncey's Idea --$tThe Glass Slipper --$tNative Intelligence --$tThe Natural Aristocracy --$tVictory --$tIQ Joe --$tThe Census of One Ability --$tThe Standard Gauge --$tIn the System --$tMeritocracy --$tThe Master Plan --$tRah! Rah! Rah! --$tChauncey at Yale --$tThe Negro Problem --$tThe Fall of Clark Kerr --$tThe Invention of the Asian-American --$tMandarins --$tThe Weak Spot --$tWorking --$tThe Fall of William Turnbull --$tThe Guardians --$tBehind the Curtain --$tBerkeley Squeezed --$tMolly's Crisis --$tThe Case of Winton Manning --$tSurprise Attack --$tNo Retreat --$tThe Fundis and the Realos --$tChanging Sides --$tDefeat --$tAfterword: A Real Meritocracy.
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610 20 $aEducational Testing Service$xHistory.
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600 10 $aChauncey, Henry,$d1905-2002.
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653 $aUnited States
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653 $aElites
653 $aRacial discrimination
653 $aCivil liberties
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