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Summers also visited a special-education class for autistic children, taught a third-grade class about literacy using word puzzles and engaged a fifth-grade class in a discussion about graphs as a tool for analyzing data—expanding his fan base throughout...
...historical sense, Caperton's ambitious agenda for the big test is appropriate: 77 years ago, the exam began life as a tool of social change. The most significant early champion of the SAT was Harvard president James Conant, who, Lemann writes, disliked achievement tests because "they favored rich boys whose parents could buy them top-flight high-school instruction." Conant helped the SAT grow into the behemoth it is today precisely because it was different...
...Caperton may, in his well-intentioned effort to ameliorate schools, ruin his main instrument for doing so. "I'm worried they may be asking one test to carry too many buckets of water," says Fred Hargadon, a former College Board vice president. Caperton believes the SAT should be a tool of social change as well as of social measurement--that it should serve communitarian ends even as it tries to give reliable, valid scores to individual kids and colleges. "This [new] test is really going to create a revolution in the schools," he says. But can the SAT be engineered...
...still raise hackles, but now the fights are political: Penn visiting Iraq before the war (and then saying the Iraqis used him as a propaganda tool); Penn accusing a producer of freezing him out of a movie project because of his antiwar comments; Penn critiquing the U.S. invasion as if it were a screenplay. "There are incredible holes in the plot," he tells TIME. "The casting's terrible. This guy who is playing Donald Rumsfeld should be doing dinner theater. It's a really poorly thought-out movie, and it's killing people...
Harvard webmail, once praised for its high-tech “SpamAssassin” tool that purged virtually all spam from students’ e-mail accounts, has now been pegged as a distributor of spam itself...