Although originally designed as instruments to gauge students' progress, tests eventually were used to modify curricula, learning materials, pedagogy, and many

America's leading expert in educational testing and measurement openly names the failures caused by today's testing policies and provides a blueprint for doing

"[The anti-testing] movement now has a guidebook. . . . Kamenetz shows how fundamentally American it would be to move toward a more holistic system." -- New Yor

Concludes that educational tests can be misleading or worse when used for purposes other than which they were originally designed. Charts and tables.