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...Alex Lemann ’06 is entering the competition with his roughly 50-volume collection on World War II books, focused on the American soldier...
...goal was to find the most extraordinary talented young people in America and make education at elite institutions available to them,” said Nicholas Lemann ’76, author of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy...
...system Henry did so much to set up poses inherent problems and leads to results he didn’t believe in,” said Lemann. “He was a lifelong liberal and was very upset at the way the use of the SAT became a conservative cause...
...decades after World War II, the College Board struggled to build the reputation of the SAT, which was first used experimentally in 1926. The board desperately wanted the University of California, then the biggest university in the nation, to fully adopt the test. In 1962, as Nicholas Lemann says in his brilliant history, The Big Test, an SAT honcho wrote to his colleagues of the dire consequences if U.C. decided to end its then limited use of the test: "If they drop the SAT, we will lose a great deal more than the revenue; we will suffer a damaging blow...
...That raises the question of whether we should try to test intelligence at all. Lemann, who wrote the history of the SAT, answers no. "You want to measure people on something they've done, not on supposedly innate abilities," he says. "I don't trust the whole idea of innateness." Fine, but what about those cool kids who would rather write concertos or build rockets than cram for a quiz on Grover Cleveland's second term? What about the bright rural Arkansas kid whose school is so screwed up that her grades mean nothing? Lemann says those students could still...