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Seldom has a warning been so baldly ignored. Back in 1926 the nonprofit College Board introduced the Scholastic Aptitude Test with a cautionary observation: "This additional test," said the board, "should be regarded merely as a supplementary record. To place too great an emphasis on test scores is as dangerous...
Challenging critics, the College Board revamps the venerable Scholastic Aptitude Test, one of many exams created by New Jersey's powerful Educational Testing Service.
"Sunday's game [a 6-1 exhibition victory over Western Ontario] was a good way to break in," the Boston Globe All-Scholastic player said. "I played for a Division II public high school. From that to Sunday was a jump.
When Scholastic Voice magazine decided last spring to sponsor an exchange of correspondence between its U.S. readers and newly liberated teenagers in East Berlin, more than 10,000 young Americans sent in letters. But Scholastic staffers sifting through the outgoing mail sometimes gulped at the messages. "Dear Whoever, My life...
Virtually every minority group finds itself under fire. For blacks, the trigger is often affirmative action: whatever their backgrounds or abilities, black students may find themselves viewed as beneficiaries of lowered standards. Last fall the University of Virginia accepted more than half the blacks who applied but only one-third...