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...afternoon's premier event--a contest which remained scoreless through four quarters--saw Winthrop squeak past Currier 8-6 in overtime when quarterback Charlie Slack completed a two-point conversion on his one-yard keeper into the endzone...
...most recent FTC report on the SAT, compiled by Joan Gerrity of the agency's Boston office and released last April, concurs with the Slack-Porter conclusion that "ETS and the College Board have not fully disclosed the potential benefits of coaching," Gerrity says. The report also raises questions about "how useful schools should find a test that appears not to be very standardized" and "how much high school education has become oriented toward a test that may not be valid for a lot of students," she adds. Yet admissions officers do not question ETS's practices, describing the company...
...There is a certain vindictiveness about the Slack-Porter argument," says Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation and the longest standing member of Harvard's admissions committee. Whitla, who has enjoyed periodic research support from ETS, made a statement in 1962 that Slack and Porter now take pleasure in quoting: "If this thesis [that SAT scores can be increased by an intensive tutoring program] were to be proved true, its proof would challenge the validity and essential purposes for which the test was constructed." Today, Whitla says, Harvard is continuing its standard practice...
...Slack and Porter endorse what Whitla describes as a growing reliance on Achievement Tests at Harvard and other schools. But they warn that too much emphasis on these exams--which test knowledge of individual academic subjects on terms dictated by ETS and the College Board if teachers felt compelled to prepare students specifically for the achievements. The answer for Slack and Porter is one that admissions offices and ETS would consider a step backwards: abandon the SAT, use other standardized exams to a limited extent, and place even more stock in high school grades and recommendations...
...question we'd like every admissions officer to ask himself is, 'Does this test [the SAT] do me enough good to make it worth all of the negative aspects?'" says Slack. "And we think the answer...