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As the authors make plain, there is no question colleges are engaging in "race-norming." Here at Harvard, for example, the mean Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) score for Blacks in the class of 1996 was 95 points lower than the mean SAT score for whites in the same class, according...
Sports Illustrated had caught wind of her exploits and featured her in its Faces in the Crowd section. ESPN had named her a Scholastic Sports America Scholarship Finalist. The Prince Racket Company voted her a National High School All-American.
Ellison said he sees the phenomenon as part of the same nationwide pattern in which women tend to score lower on the math portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test than their male counterparts.
After weeks in which most episodes in the O.J. Simpson case have taken place just about anywhere but in court -- on the freeways, in the headlines, on the Sunday-morning talk shows -- it was something of a relief when the preliminary hearing started last week in Los Angeles. Even when...
It was my wish to bring an unsullied mind to the game, and so I approached Chicago packing little to no scholastic preparation. The careful reader will recall that last week I confessed to a profound ignorance of the sport we Americans continue to call soccer (we provincials in our...