Word: giftedness
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My gifted colleague Poniewozik would no doubt have preferred Crowe to be pissedand logorrheic. But I'm grateful that Oscar Night 2001 was not a three-hour-27-minute edition of "Jackass." And though I'm not a Julia Roberts fan, I was beguiled by her acceptance speech. She put...
This argument probably seems a restatement of the obvious, which raises another important point. We have had a progressive income tax for so long that we accept it as a given. Here's the thinking behind our current income-tax system: the rich can afford to pay more than the...
Genius, so much fiction tells us, is the flip side of madness. In this busy, woozy thriller, a psychotic park dweller known as the Caveman (Samuel L. Jackson) is afflicted with "brain typhoons" and visions of "moth-seraphs." That gives him just the intuition needed to sleuth out a murder...
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...