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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 30, 13 CONTACT: Kerry Kramer (410) 858-7423 kjkramer91@gmail.com Hansons Latest Book Reveals the Lasting Impact of Tests Is Americas testing obsession more harmful than helpful?

COLLEGE PARK, MD--- In his latest book, F. Allan Hanson, uncovers the lasting impact of pre-screening tests commonly used in business and education today. Hanson claims that most pre-screening tests often serve individuals with a life-sentence of intelligence or incompetence. Decisions are made about people not on the basics of what they have done, or even what they certainly will do, but in terms of what they might do, says Hanson. According to Hanson, a professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, tests often assign people to various categories- genius, slow learner, security risk- Where they are then treated, act and come to think of themselves according to the expectations associated with those categories. Hanson argues for the elimination of testing used to predict behavior and aptitude by employers and higher education.

Hansons book Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life is now available in local bookstores. For more information contact Denise Circourel at UC Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, CA 94720.

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