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Using standardized tests as an equalizer--albeit an imperfect one--has spurred discussion of an even broader issue: whether any standardized test. SAT or Achievement, actually can illuminate a student's basic abilities. Many have charged that high scorers on any such test are likely to be well-off and to have attended better high schools. Whitla, however, dismisses the notion that there exist "bright and noble savages"--students who could succeed here academically in spite of preparation so poor that they could not do well on Achievements...
...exactly the kind of liberty you want to be defending. I think the difference between the Right and the Left here and elsewhere is that the Left at least feels the compulsion to care about people who aren't in a unique situation, namely that of being a well-off student at an Ivy League university...
...auto business. Unemployment has escalated to a Great Depression level of 23.9%, almost triple the national average. Into this municipal battleground for survival, old XVI, with its estimated 70,000 out-of-town visitors, its press personnel and its attendant show-business acts, arrives like a relief column of well-off cavalry. Some experts claim that the event may pump as much as $62 million into the economy of southeastern Michigan...
...another part of the club. The White Animals are Mimi's favorite band, and she had them flown in from Nashville for the occasion. She and her escort, Dayton Macatee, 23, are dancing up a storm. That Mimi and Dayton get along so well is no surprise; they're both well-bred, well-off young Texans. Keep in mind, though, that Mimi had nothing to do with the selection of Dayton as her escort. In feudal fashion, Idlewild made the match, based on criteria known only to the club. All the other couples were paired by Ann Draper...
...relatively well-off Jun Tan brigade is doing far better than the average Chinese rural village. Its per person annual revenue of $201 is well above the national rural average of only $91, and with good reason. Jun Tan's income has doubled since the brigade started practicing two years ago the responsibility system, the basic principle of which is pragmatic: produce more, keep more for yourself...