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...interviews with Dean Ford during the time he was in University Hall, it's clear that he had a wonderful clarity about—and concern for—the undergraduate experience," said former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. "The troubles of the late 1960s were testing??€”and sometimes distressing—for everyone in the Harvard administration, and we can only be grateful that Franklin Ford generously gave us more than two decades after that, as a distinguished historian and teacher in the College...
Unfortunately, most of the country is not so fortunate. As higher education is increasingly sought out, the same ugly debates that transpired in the late 1960s and ‘70s—affirmative action, race-conscious admissions, standardized testing??€”are back on campuses nationwide, and threatening to subsume some of the top university systems, including the largest, the University of California...
...Peterson’s remarks ran counter to the comments of most panelists, who said standardized testing of some sort is useful for improving education. The radio show featured two panels in which school administrators and education researchers discussed high-stakes testing??€”a new trend in education policy that is popular with the business community and many politicians...