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...agree that there are some innate cultural biases, but what biases there may be are not enough to explain the low SAT scores of African and Latino American students. How can we fault the SAT's bias when so many minority students don't even know what the SAT is, and typically don't remain in high school long enough to find...
...magnify our focus on the minutia and understand the greater problem and its cause. The real problem is this: By any standard of academic achievement, including standards with no inherent bias, the Latino and African American students are, on average, well below average. We must be bold and accept this situation, and take steps to remedy...
...influence council members to vote for the package, and said, "I posed [the question] in an objective fashion." He said he asked council members, "Are you going to vote on the re-evaluation package?" and then "chit-chat[ted] with them for a while. I [did]n't bias it in any fashion," Hanselman said...
...longer the naive ideologue I once was. The color-blind society is still far, far away--note the riot at South Boston High School earlier this month. Mother Earth has been sentenced to death by overzealotry from the left and overreaction from the right. And, regrettably, some sort of bias is unavoidable...
...used to being part of a liberal minority in high school; it was easy to cry foul and charge conservative bias. At Harvard, where liberals abound, the bias slants distinctly the other way. Begrudgingly, I concede this truth to Peninsula. In the De Scopulo section of their latest issue ("Just Joshing"), they report that Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 chose to overlook first-year Joshua Oppenheimer's removal of AALARM posters from a University bulletin board...