Preface and Acknowledgments / David Owen -- Preface and Acknowledgments / Marilyn Doerr -- Foreword / James Fallows -- Series Editor's Foreword / Joe L. Kincheloe -- Introduction: High Anxiety -- 1. The Kettle Defense -- 2. Holistic Grading -- 3. Multiple Guess -- 4. Numbers -- 5. Tempting the Medicine Freaks -- 6. Coaching -- 7. Beating the Test -- 8. Test Security -- 9. The Cult to Mental Measurement -- 10. Brains -- 11. Mythology -- 12. Testing and Teachers -- 13. Testing and Society: What Can Be Done? -- App. A. A Poisoned Question -- App. B. Illegal Test Use -- App. C. College List