Word: abigail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announced panelists, Abigail Thernstrom, co-author of America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible and Nicholas Lemann '76, author of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy...
Could this ethnic rearrangement be a good thing? Yes, says Abigail Thernstrom, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a leading affirmative-action critic. Thernstrom argues that minorities suffer when affirmative action puts them on campuses that otherwise wouldn't have admitted them. The dropout rate of black U.C. undergraduate students back in the days of affirmative action was 42%--twice the rate of whites. That stands to reason, Thernstrom says, because blacks and Hispanics were forced to compete against whites and Asians who came to the same schools with higher test scores and grade-point averages. "As students...
...Abigail M. Thernstrom '61, a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, said the tests are an important tool for measuring how well an educational system is teaching its students...
...Abigail M. Thernstrom '61, a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, said the tests are an important tool for measuring how well an educational system is teaching its students...
Lumbard is survived by his son Thomas, hisdaughter, Abigail Lumbard, and four grandchildren.His wife, Polly Poindexter, died...