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He is co-author of The Shape of the River and a professor at the John
F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a former
president of Harvard University and former dean of the Harvard Law School.
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He is the co-author of The Shape of the River and President of the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He is a former president of Princeton
University.
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He was the first director of the Educational Testing Service and an assistant dean of admissions under Harvard president James Conant. Together, Conant and Chauncey were instrumental in the 30's and 40's in establishing the broad use of standardized testing in the U.S.
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He is President and CEO of Kaplan Educational Centers, the country's largest
test preparation business. The company claims to have helped 3 million students
study for the SAT over the past 60 years.
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She is a professor of law at Harvard University and has written about the Law
School Admission Test (LSAT) and its limitations in predicting success in law
school and after. She is the author of Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil
Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice.
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He is professor of social policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School
of Government and co-editor of The Black-White Test Score Gap, a
compilation of the most recent research on the gap between black students' and
white students' performance on standardized tests.
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He is President and founder of the Princeton Review which boasts helping
100,000 students each year prepare for the SAT. The company employs a
how-to-beat-the-test approach to taking the SAT.
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He is Director of Undergraduate Admissions at the University of California,
Berkeley.
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He is a journalist and author of The Big Test-The Secret History of the
American Meritocracy which examines American meritocracy and how,
after World War II, the SAT test became the ticket for entry into America's
ruling class.
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She is a professional tutor and founder of the Laguna Beach-based Cambridge
Academic Services. It offers an after-school SAT prep class that starts as
early as the seventh grade.
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He is senior counsel at the Center for Individual Rights, the law firm which is
suing the University of Michigan over its undergraduate affirmative action
policies. CIR represented Cheryl Hopwood in the Hopwood v. Texas
lawsuit, which in 1996 led the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to rule
that the University of Texas law school could not take race into consideration
in admitting students.
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He is Public Education Director of FairTest, a standardized test watchdog
group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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He is a professor of social psychology at Stanford University. Steele and his
colleagues have described what they call "stereotype threat"--the idea that
students who belong to groups that have been negatively stereotyped are likely
to perform less well in situations such as standardized tests in which they
feel they are being evaluated through the lens of that stereotype.
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He is a Yale University professor of psychology and education and a researcher
of human intelligence. He is the author of Successful Intelligence: How
Practical and Creative Intelligence Determine Success in Life, in which he
argues for broadening the definition of intelligence and creating new tools to
measure it.
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She is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a member of the
Massachusetts State Board of Education . She is co-author of America in
Black and White-One Nation Indivisible.
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He is professor at Boalt Law School, University of California, Berkeley and
former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He favors a race
neutral admissions policy.
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