June 30, 2006

Captain Caperton

The College Board's president has steered the association through a period of growth and change. Critics say it's veered off course.

By ERIC HOOVER

One day, Gaston Caperton was strolling under a cloudless sky. Life was good. Then, suddenly, he felt a rock in his shoe. Soon he could think of nothing else.

Mr. Caperton, the College Board's president, uses this figurative tale to describe the technological glitch that skewed the October SAT scores of some 5,000 students and caused a national rumpus this spring. He says the incident pained him, humbled him. Still, a rock is just a rock, and in the end the only thing to do is shake it