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What we've decided now is that we'll identify, assess and honor a much wider range of human abilities than just whatever it is that IQ tests measure. That's the theory. The practice is that IQ testing--cheap, consistent and established--is still ubiquitous. Even the attempts to supplant it pay IQ the tribute of accepting its frame of reference. We have got used to trying to understand what goes on inside people's head in terms of "intelligences" and "quotients," and there doesn't seem to be any way to put that particular horse back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The IQ Meritocracy | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Studying this year in England has refreshed a lot of my outlook on Harvard, and has helped me assess our college's faults and virtues in a much more cogent, lucid way than if I had gotten progressively mired in Harvard for all of my four years," Hicks says...

Author: By Paul K. Nitze, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: OUT OF THE BOX | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

Perhaps the FDO is taking its lead from the Masters of Lowell House, who, two weeks ago, banned the game because it "is not in keeping with spirit of community life." But it is one thing for House Masters to assess the value of individual House-wide activities. Although we encourage the Masters of Lowell to give the game a chance after all, the game--in one form or another--has thus far successfully promoted positive values of community and social interaction in Pforzheimer and Quincy Houses), it is ultimately their decision whether or not the game is consistent with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of Nerf Guns | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...adopted a code of conduct and, through its professional staff, will administer a carefully prescribed monitoring process to assess compliance of companies with these standards," he wrote...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Joins Sweatshop Oversight Group | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

...SANE program nurse is one of a team of professionals from the medical, counseling, advocacy and law enforcement fields who will provide care and services at the designated SANE site. They will assess a patient for injuries and provide treatment and protection from unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

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