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...nothing about the emotional trauma which this testing system puts students through. America's most famous standardized test, the SAT (presently named Scholastic Assessment Test, formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test), provides the best example of the potential emotional harm to students. According to a report in last month's Newsweek, the long-term effects of the SAT are not negligible. This takes into account the domino-effect theories linking SAT scores to success in life, and the wide range of fields (including unlikely areas such as real estate) that are indirectly influenced to some degree by the SAT. A considerable number...
...Newsweek reporter Robert J. Samuelson '67 focused his article instead on the part of the study that declares that students make the same salaries regardless of the average SAT score of their classmates. He omitted Krueger's and Dale's finding that students increase their potential earnings by attending schools in higher tuition brackets...
...debate over the value of a high-cost college education continued this week with a Newsweek article titled "The Worthless Ivy League...
...article contradicts a recent study by Kahn Associate Professor of Economics Caroline Hoxby '88 linking expensive colleges and later earnings--but an author of the study on which the Newsweek article is based claims the magazine misconstrued his findings...
Krueger took issue with the article because, he said, the Newsweek story disregarded the second part of his study, which looked at a wider range of schools, both top-tier and otherwise...