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For months, Moussaoui had continued to file pleadings from his cell, but when he learned last April that the government, in a closed hearing, had presented a new theory of his role in 9/11--that he was meant to pilot a fifth plane into the White House in a separate attack...
I put that question to David Lohman, a University of Iowa psychology professor who has studied the differences between achievement and aptitude tests. In a paper that will be published in the forthcoming book Rethinking the SAT, Lohman analyzed test scores for 6,300 11th-graders who in 2000 took...
In his 2001 speech, Atkinson called for U.C. to "require only standardized tests that assess mastery of specific subject areas rather than undefined notions of 'aptitude.'" Why the switch? "Last year," he said, "I visited an upscale private school and observed a class of 12-year-old students studying verbal...
In some ways, Gaston Caperton has an excruciating job these days: he must sell the New SAT even as he defends the current test against its critics. He cannot say the College Board was wrong about the SAT all these years; nor can he say the board was wholly right...
DO YOU WISH YOU HAD BEEN TOUGHER WITH THE BIG INVESTMENT BANKS IN LAST YEAR'S SETTLEMENT OVER MISLEADING STOCK RESEARCH? THEY PAID SOME FINES, BUT NO ONE WAS INDICTED. I feel that we made the right judgment calls at the time. Whether the investment banks have learned their lesson...