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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Charles Murray: No More SAT!

Social scientist, Charles Murray, is calling for an end to the SAT. He calls it [the SAT] a, "corrosive symbol of privilege." His intrigue with the test began after he read the University of California's 2001 study that showed that a student's high school grades and scores on the SAT Subject Tests were a more reliable predictor of college success than the SAT I Reasoning Test.

Check out Charles's article at:
http://www.american.com/archive/2007/july-august-magazine-contents/abolish-the-sat

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