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Assessment Testing: Not a Measure of Intelligence, But Certainly the Means to Marginalize Political Participation & Economic Opportunity

Introduction

The United States culture of testing is, in large measure, an evil that bars a majority of citizens from full participation in society. The testing methodology employed by educational bureaucracies does not measure intelligence, but, rather, measures memory and recall abilities. People without these talents are politically and economically marginalized since the primary way to credentials is through the highly optimized educational establishment’s rules dictated by accreditation organizations, which the testing industry echoes. Therefore, based on the accreditation and testing industries, the future of each and every citizen is, more often than not, determined.

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