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...administered in its new form for the first time in June, has been revised to predict more closely how a student will perform in law school, but an official at the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) said Thursday the alterations were not made specifically to counter charges of cultural bias in the test...
...could a legitimate women's studies curriculum be developed. The goal of the academic work that comes under the title, "women's studies," is instead to inject balance into traditional areas of study. But the removal of any male chauvinist bias from academic work must come from within specific existing, departments-otherwise, the problem of ignoring such biases will continue...
...problem is trying to figure out who is killing whom, and a number of human rights organizations in both the U.S. and El Salvador are now engaged in compiling that information. Hardly any of these body counters blame the guerrillas for significant abuses, a sign of the anti-government bias of most of the human rights organizations. Even so, U.S. officials are concerned that the Salvadoran government's publicized reputation for brutality is undermining Administration aid for the regime. Last week Deane Hinton, U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, bluntly warned that human rights abuses by government troops have come...
...findings against social bias in the tests have drawn fire from consumer advocates Ralph Nader and Allan Nairn, who co-authored a 1980 report on test bias that led to legislation in New York State forcing partial disclosure of SAT results...
...Robert E. Klitgaard '68, special assistant to President Bok who last year wrote a controversial report that found SAT scores slightly overpredicted grades for minority students here, said new results on bias were "no surprise" and were "entirely consistent" with his own findings...