March 9, 2001

Two Cheers for an End to the SAT

By ALFIE KOHN

One imagines the folks at the College Board blushing deeply when, a few years back, they announced that the "A" in SAT no longer stood for "Aptitude." Scarlet, after all,

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would be an appropriate color to turn while, in effect, conceding that the

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