Word: giftedness
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Although few people are aware of the SAT's direct roots in intelligence testing, lots of kids have a vague sense that the test measures how smart you are, and they internalize the score as a lifelong measure of their innate worth. The SAT is like a medicine that accomplished...
President Bush proposed a regime of achievement tests for the elementary and middle school grades all over the country, and president Atkinson proposed a regime of achievement tests for high schools in California. It's all the same idea. Half a century ago, Conant and Chauncey created, in the SAT...
There is something at the heart of the Clinton personality and phenomenon that seems deeply disturbed. We've had presidents before who were unstable. Some of Lyndon Johnson's staff, including his gifted speechwriter Richard Goodwin, came to believe that at the end, in 1967-68, Johnson became clinically paranoid...
The song was a runaway hit in Britain last spring, and from there Gray rode a wave of trans-Continental buzz. He is part of a generation of gifted young singer-songwriters-it also includes such acts as Elliott Smith, Badly Drawn Boy and Beth Orton-who have thrived by...
3 p.m. Wow, you waded through that bureaucracy faster than we expected. That's probably why they made you President of Harvard and not those three other schmucks. It's time for your first section in Historical Studies A-69: Ancient Babylonian Folkways (attending lecture is neither required nor encouraged...