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Word: abigail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Spills 'Secrets' of SAT in Arco Forum | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Field Is Level | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dept. of Ed. Suggests Limits on SAT Use | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Colleges Urged to Rely Less on Standardized Tests | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

Lumbard is survived by his son Thomas, hisdaughter, Abigail Lumbard, and four grandchildren.His wife, Polly Poindexter, died...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge J. Edward Lumbard Dies at 97 | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

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