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Faculty from Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Graduate School of Education (GSE), the sponsors of the project—called the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP)—will also travel to the school districts to serve as advisers and to assess the school districts’ performance...
...sure, it was never a perfect measure of developed abilities, which by their nature are more difficult to appraise than, say, how many plant names you memorized in botany. But what happens when you move away from trying to assess aptitude? Consider the reading section of the New SAT. In May, the College Board's Reading Development Committee decided that SAT item writers should feel free to use literary terminology in their questions for the reading section. Words that one would typically use only in a literature class--simile, personification--had always been avoided on the SAT, on the theory...
...abilities, not their specific knowledge of algebra or the extent to which they have written practice essays. Caperton's feat is actually twofold: not only has he begun to shape a U.S. curriculum, but he has also granted victory in a long, contentious argument about whether admissions tests should assess aptitudes or achievements. For decades, the SAT was, at its heart, an aptitude test; now it's becoming more like its competitor, the ACT, the nation's biggest achievement test...
...speech, Atkinson called for U.C. to "require only standardized tests that assess mastery of specific subject areas rather than undefined notions of 'aptitude.'" Why the switch? "Last year," he said, "I visited an upscale private school and observed a class of 12-year-old students studying verbal analogies in anticipation of the SAT. I learned that they spend hours each month--directly and indirectly--preparing for the SAT, studying long lists of analogies such as 'untruthful is to mendaciousness' as 'circumspect is to caution.' The time involved was not aimed at developing the students' reading and writing abilities but rather...
...twelve million. But today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them ... 1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. There must be a way. And we can only find a way if we stop to think, to assess our weaknesses and our strength, to plan, to strategize and then to counterattack." Mahathir Mohamad, outgoing Malaysian Prime Minister, at last week's Organization of the Islamic Conference in Putrajaya...