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...past 10 years--until he was gone. It's not that I fulfill some stereotype, caught up in my papers and projects. The subtle hints that are the fluency of familial conversation are lost over the phone. Quivering hands far away are not observed when fingers move to write a letter. But more importantly, Harvard has a gravity, a force that pulls one into campus and away from outside thoughts and considerations...
...write a card to my great aunt, a column to my friends, and try to do by proxy the duty that distance prohibits me from doing in person...
...drop the SAT, by what means should we allot membership in the nation's ?lite? Of course, plenty of people make movies and play in the major leagues and run companies and write for magazines without high SATs. But good scores sure don't hurt. Besides, don't they measure something valuable - something beyond the diligence it takes to memorize the details of the Franco-Prussian War for a history exam? Much of the debate over the SAT boils down to this: Assuming we can measure innate intelligence, do we want a society that rewards genes? Are we afraid...
...intelligence at all. Lemann, who wrote the history of the SAT, answers no. "You want to measure people on something they've done, not on supposedly innate abilities," he says. "I don't trust the whole idea of innateness." Fine, but what about those cool kids who would rather write concertos or build rockets than cram for a quiz on Grover Cleveland's second term? What about the bright rural Arkansas kid whose school is so screwed up that her grades mean nothing? Lemann says those students could still submit their perfect 1600 SAT score, since the test would simply...
...Research on another alternative exam, this one written by Robert Sternberg, a psychologist at Yale University, asks students to perform tasks reflecting their creativity and practicality. In one section, students write the caption for a cartoon or design the logo for a company. In another, they are asked how they would handle requesting a letter of recommendation from a teacher or sharing rent payments on an apartment...