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...Faculty, not Summers, as the problem—hopelessly isolated, out of touch, and politically correct. As one of my friends—an economics and philosophy concentrator and an ardent Summers supporter—told me last week when arguing that the Faculty had made an egregious error in leading the cause for Summers’ ouster, “Harvard has to stop pretending it’s a liberal arts school.” He is not alone in this assesment: most students support Summers because he seems to be a straight thinker and a straight talker...
Robert Schaeffer, director of Fairtest, a non-profit organization focusing on the fair administration of standardized tests, said that he is concerned that college admissions decisions have been affected by the scoring error...
...their offspring. Researchers found that women with NTD-positive children ate more tortillas on average during their pregnancy than those who did not. Suarez defended the study’s method of asking women to recall the quantity of tortillas consumed over the past year, claiming the margin of error due to inaccurate memory was approximately the same for mothers of NTD-positive children as for mothers in the control group. When asked what effect this study might have on the consumption of its products, snack manufacturer Frito-Lay declined to comment. Despite the alarm that the tortilla hazard might...
Harvard officials said yesterday that a scoring error on the SAT exam in October would not affect admissions decisions for students seeking spots in the Class...
...College Board will not notify students or colleges in cases where the scoring error resulted in students receiving higher test results...