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...Board if we could sort out some of these conundrums by following the development of the New SAT from inside. To our surprise, board president Gaston Caperton III agreed. Renouncing his predecessors' often combative p.r. approach, Caperton allowed me to attend a series of meetings at which New SAT items were previewed and debated. An experienced politician--he was elected Governor of West Virginia in 1988 and '92--Caperton knows the old adage about making laws and sausage. Designing tests is also a messy process, and he deserves credit for laying it bare. But while the production...
...their nature are more difficult to appraise than, say, how many plant names you memorized in botany. But what happens when you move away from trying to assess aptitude? Consider the reading section of the New SAT. In May, the College Board's Reading Development Committee decided that SAT item writers should feel free to use literary terminology in their questions for the reading section. Words that one would typically use only in a literature class--simile, personification--had always been avoided on the SAT, on the theory that a student should get credit for being able to comprehend...
...technical language will also increase in math. For instance, in the past, an SAT item might have stipulated that group A has 10 members and group B has 10 + 5x members, where x = 3. What's the total number in both groups? Add the 10 from group A and the 10 + (5 x 3) from group B. You get 35. But on the New SAT, the question might read, "What is the union of sets A and B?" Union and set are terms of art for mathematicians; a "union of two sets" is everything in both sets. The answer...
...very nature of antiquities makes the issue of ownership particularly murky. Many countries now have laws banning the export of ancient treasures, and an item taken recently from a temple or a grave or a palace is, by definition, stolen--but stolen from whom? Though much of European art sold by reputable dealers tends to have a detailed provenance--a record of where and when the item was procured and how it changed hands--antiquities from the developing world are often not held to the same standards. Only a tiny percentage of stolen art is ever reported. Indeed, hundreds...
Packed with legitimate antiques shops and those that specialize in fakes, Hong Kong's Hollywood Road is a key Asian transit point for stolen Chinese antiquities. The rarest items are seldom displayed. "If someone walks in off the street and asks to see some real antiques, I'll probably show them fakes," says a Hollywood Road dealer who declines to be named. "But if they come in knowing exactly what they want and they know what the market rate is, I'll bring in the real things from my warehouse." In 2001, this dealer--who was busted a few years...