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To: vikingchick
What's worse, she wrote an LA Times op-ed about junking the SAT as an admissions requirement that was the most disjointed piece of dreck I ever tried to read.

http://www.pitzer.edu/offices/president/speeches/latimes_op_ed.asp

"Looking back on its history, the institutionalization of the SAT strikes me as an utterly American invention, one promising inclusive equality while simultaneously guaranteeing exclusion. We Americans desperately want to be reassured that we are the best when it comes to equalizing opportunity and rewarding merit, and the SAT affords us the chance to indulge our appetite for seemingly objective measurement. But at the underside of our meritocracy is a car-crash culture, filled with such wrecks along the self-esteem highway as television programs like "Survivor," "The Bachelor," "American Idol" and "Extreme Makeover.""
49 posted on 03/17/2004 8:57:08 PM PST by Oschisms
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To: Oschisms
"...a car-crash culture, filled with such wrecks along the self-esteem highway..."

Oh, if only she had known how prophetic this little screed of hers would be! Maybe they should build a Modern Museum of Mau Mau and put her little Honda in there as the first exhibit.

72 posted on 03/17/2004 9:29:52 PM PST by Bonaparte
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