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Banneker aims to help minority students succeed academically by emphasizing math, science and technology in its curriculum...
COLIN RIZZIO is the kind of guy seniors want around when they're sitting the SATs. While taking the math exam in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Rizzio thought one question seemed ambiguous. "I wrote it down afterward and discussed it with my teacher," he says. Rizzio was right. The algebra question asked students to compare two values, but neglected to specify that the key variable, a, was positive. Rizzio realized that a could be negative, creating the possibility of two answers. He E-mailed the College Board, which, for the first time in 15 years, admitted it had made a mistake...
...said Colin Rizzio, the New Hampshire teenager who gained national notoriety last week for correctly observing that one of the October SAT math questions was flawed. The uncomfortable nudge Rizzio gave the Educational Testing Service serves as more than a minor corporate embarrassment...
...also testifies to the limitations and fallibilities of any system that purports to be an absolute test of ability. Colin Rizzio scored (before the mistake was discovered) a 750 on the math exam. Indubitably, a small number of students in the country did even better than that. Does the fact that they were better able to answer the formulated questions prove they are more intelligent? Or does the fact that Rizzio had the intellectual flexibility to understand not only how to find the answer to a question, but to intuit how it was designed to work, suggest something...
...first place to start with is the Admissions Committee. Harvard is simply taking too many rocket scientists who speak 12 languages and win math competitions in their free time. While it's important that Harvard maintain academic integrity and not start taking knuckle heads, it's essential that the Admissions Committee realize that Harvard sports are in jeopardy of falling apart...