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As we edge toward the year 2000, the information age is a reality; the global marketplace is increasingly competitive; and the U.S. labor force is shrinking. Today more than ever, our nation’s economic and social well-being hinges on our ability to tap our human resources—to identify talent, to nurture it, and to assess abilities and disabilities in ways that help every individual reach his or her full potential.
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James Fallows, More Like Us (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), 1989, p. 142.
Fallows (1989), p. 143.
Fallows (1989), p. 143.
Fallows (1989), p. 143.
See Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (New York: Harper & Row, 1987), esp. pp. 178–186.
Cited in Scott Winokur, “The Extraordinary Case of Oliver Sacks, ” in Image: The Magazine of the San Francisco Examiner, December 16, 1990, p. 14.
Keith W. Olson, The G.I. Bill, the Veterans, and the Colleges (Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1974), cited in Fallows (1989), pp. 158–159.
National Commission on Testing and Public Policy, From Gatekeeper to Gateway (Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College, 1990), pp. 9–10.
For more on the origins and purposes of the National Commission on Testing and Public Policy, see the Introduction to Bernard R. Gifford, Test Policy and the Politics of Opportunity Allocation: The Workplace and the Law (Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989), pp. ix–xii.
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Gifford, B.R. (1992). Introduction. In: Gifford, B.R., O’Connor, M.C. (eds) Changing Assessments. Evaluation in Education and Human Services, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2968-8_1
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