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If you haven’t read this I recommend you do. http://books.google.com/books/about/The_reign_of_ETS.html?id=BWJHAAAAMAAJ It’s hard to get a hold of. It’s scarcity may be due to the content and it’s revelations about the ETS’s history. It retells how mass testing was more reflective of the discriminatory and racist views that prevailed at a time when testing was being touted as a time saver and allowing of “proper” placement of individuals into jobs that they were “best suited for.”
If you haven’t read this I recommend you do. http://books.google.com/books/about/The_reign_of_ETS.html?id=BWJHAAAAMAAJ It’s hard to get a hold of. It’s scarcity may be due to the content and it’s revelations about the ETS’s history. It retells how mass testing was more reflective of the discriminatory and racist views that prevailed at a time when testing was being touted as a time saver and allowing of “proper” placement of individuals into jobs that they were “best suited for.”