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Another concern raised by the work is the fact that the College Board sponsored it. The College Board is, of course, also the sponsor of the SAT. The study's positive results are likely to be welcomed by the Board, which added a writing section to the SAT in 2005, extending the test from its previous three-hour length to three hours and 45 minutes. The move elicited criticism from educators and parents, who said the test had gotten too long to be a fair assessment of an exhaustible student's true abilities...
...research is conducted, however, the risk always exists that researchers' objectivity may be tainted by their backers' agenda. But Ackerman insists this is not a concern with his and Kanfer's work. The data from the study, he says, remained the property of Georgia Tech, not the College Board, and the two groups signed a contract in advance in which the school retained the rights to publish the results no matter what...
...lightweight competition. Also making its first appearance in this year’s iteration of the regatta was a new selection standard, which required boats to now qualify for entry while prohibiting club teams from participating.Despite the change, the field remained loaded with contenders. "The strongest field across the board I've seen, at least in the years we've been going to the IRAs," Harvard coach Harry Parker called it.Pacific-10 conference rivals Cal, Stanford, and Washington represented the heavyweight favorites, but defending champion Wisconsin was not to be forgotten either. And of course, the Ancient Eight...
...former New York Times reporter, a cardiologist, and the head of a Smithsonian museum are among the six newly elected members of the Board of Overseers, Harvard’s second-highest governing board...
...view as the Board both historically and into the future as being more of a best friend, a best pal, than an overseer if it is someone who is higher than others,” said Morgan Chu, who found out that he had won during Commencement, where his brother, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, delivered the keynote address...