41. NewsMakers professor of medicine, was recently appointed coEditor-in-chief Rawls Wins the NationalHumanities Medal John Rawls, James Bryant Conant University Professor http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/09.23/news.html

[an error occurred while processing this directive] September 23, 1999 SEARCH THE GAZETTE HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES NewsMakers . The Journal Tomlinson Receives Gold Medal for Botany , Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology, was awarded the Gold Medal for Botany at a meeting of the Linnean Society of London on Sept. 9. A faculty member in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Tomlinson was recognized for his contributions to the development of our understanding of plants in a broad range of subdisciplines. Rawls Wins the National Humanities Medal , James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus, will receive the National Humanities Medal at a special ceremony to be held at the White House on Wednesday, Sept. 29. The award is presented to "distinguished individuals who have set the highest standards for American cultural achievement." President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will present the award to eight distinguished Americans. A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993), two books that are widely read among political scientists, economists, and legal theorists for his views on justice, basic rights, and equal opportunity.

42. Eight Will Receive Honorary Degrees in 1974 he was named James Bryant Conant University Professor. Adams University Professorand James Duncan Phillips Professor 25 years he was the Editor of the http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/06.10/honorary_deg.html

June 10, 1999 SEARCH THE GAZETTE HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES Eight Will Receive Honorary Degrees One woman and seven men will receive honorary degrees at Harvard's 348th Commencement Exercises this morning. In alphabetical order, the recipients are Kenneth J. Arrow Doctor of Laws Bernard Bailyn Doctor of Laws Herbert Block Doctor of Arts Andrew F. Brimmer Doctor of Laws David Roxbee Cox Doctor of Science Alan Greenspan Doctor of Laws Julia Kristeva Doctor of Laws ; and Mario Vargas Llosa Doctor of Letters Biographical sketches follow: Kenneth J. Arrow Doctor of Laws Kenneth Arrow is Joan Kenney Professor of Economics Emeritus and Professor of Operations Research Emeritus at Stanford University. A graduate of the City College of New York, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University and for nearly 20 years he taught economics, statistics, and operations research at Stanford. In 1968 he came to Harvard, where he became a leader of a large and vibrant group of economic theorists, and in 1974 he was named James Bryant Conant University Professor. He returned to Stanford in 1979, teaching until his retirement in 1991. An economist deeply concerned with social justice, Professor Arrow has contributed to the logical foundations of economic theory, as well as to its applications. In 1972 he received the Nobel Prize jointly with Sir John Hicks "for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory." Bernard Bailyn Doctor of Laws Adams University Professor and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History

43. Newsletter Fall 1998 He is a Contributing Editor of the French journal Pouvoirs and a member of the Poland)over the summer and for 199899 will be a James Bryant Conant Fellow at http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/cwesuw/Newsletter/fall98pt1.html

WES Northwest The Newsletter of the Center for West European Studies and the European Union Center The Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington Fall 1998 Volume 4, Issue 4 Part I European Union Center News Keeler Named Chevalier CWES Steering Committee (1998-1999) The End of an Era The ’98 Election in Germany ... to part II of Newsletter European Union Center Awarded to University of Washington At a reception held at the Library of Congress on June 23, Ambassador Hugo Paemen, Head of the European Commission’s Delegation to the United States, announced that the University of Washington had been selected as one of ten American universities to host newly established “European Union Centers.” The network of ten EU Centers will promote the study of the EU, its institutions and policies, and EU-US relations through teaching programs, scholarly research and outreach programs. The European Union is funding this initiative as part of a broader effort to promote the people-to-people ties outlined in the New Transatlantic Agenda, which provides a framework for EU-US relations. The EU received 69 applications for EU Centers and interviewed 17 finalists, then awarded EU Center grants to the University of Washington and the following nine other universities or consortia: University of Georgia/Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Missouri-Columbia, New York University/Columbia University/City University of New York, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill/Duke University, University of Pittsburgh, Scripps College/The Claremont Colleges/University of Southern California and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The University of Washington is the only university on the West Coast to have been designated both a European Union Center and a National Resource Center for West European Studies by the U.S. Department of Education.

44. The Retriever - Opinion Harvard Assistant Dean, James Bryant Conant developed the SAT during Conant neverimagined that students would place such is the Assistant Focus Editor of The http://trw.umbc.edu/articles/2046

Mar 18, 2003: News Features Sports Focus ... Opinion Apr 3, 2001: News Features Sports Focus ... The Retriever - Opinion Point: Standardized Tests Indicate Potential Rachael Singerman "I’m a person not a number: don’t judge me by my score!" Ever heard that line? The same complaint is issued after every standardized test from the MPSATS in third grade to the LSATs in college. Standardized tests are even charged with racism, discrimination, class warfare and generally contributing to the creation of a more unequal union. Admittedly, many standardized testing strategies are flawed or used inappropriately. However, standardized tests remain the best available method of uniformly assessing innate intelligence and academic achievement. So sit down and start studying because standardized tests are here to stay. Recent remarks by University of California president Richard Atkinson have sparked debate over the granddaddy of standardized tests, the SAT. Atkinson proposes making the SAT an optional admissions requirement for the 90,000 students who apply to the U of C every year. He claims that the SAT causes an undue amount of stress and needlessly takes student’s attention away from other academic pursuits such as biology or journalism. Besides, says Atkinson, "who knows what they measure" anyway? As a student who underwent the ritual of the SAT, I agree the test causes a grotesque amount of pressure. However, the pressure is not intrinsic flaw of the SATs or standardized testing. The problem is that the SAT is being applied in the wrong situations. Harvard Assistant Dean, James Bryant Conant developed the SAT during the 1930s and 40s. He designed it as an IQ test, which could be used to weed out the brightest few for Ivy League schools. Nothing more. Nothing less.

45. World Congress Of Families novelist and man of letters, is the associate Editor of The Family The king of consolidationwas James Bryant Conant, the Harvard University president who had http://www.worldcongress.org/WCF1/speakers/bill_kauffman.htm

WCF Home WCF I Home Speakers Bill Kauffman novelist and man of letters, is the associate editor of The Family in America, published by the Rockford Institute. His books include Every Man a King, America First! and Country Towns of New York. He is an historian of forgotten political and social movements and a fierce defender of local identity. "THINK LOCALLY, ACT LOCALLY, LIVE LOCALLY: EDUCATION ON THE HUMAN SCALE" I live in the rural western part of New York State: a land of dairy farms and finger lakes, of proud lady ghosts and the desolate beauty of winter. It is unlike any other place on earth, except that, like every other place on earth, it is beleaguered by Strangers Who Know Best. The latest assault is a bipartisan collaborationas mischief usually isbetween the Republican lieutenant governor, Betsy McCaughey Ross, whom the New York Post once described as having the "brain of Henry Kissinger and the body of Jessica Rabbit," and Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who, alas, possesses the brain of Jessica Rabbit and the body of Henry Kissinger. The tandem of Silver and Ross propose to make all-day kindergarten mandatory for New York’s alarmingly unregulated five-year-olds. And taking a cue from the Carnegie Corporation’s Task Force on Learning in the Primary Grades, which recommended the incarceration in school of every three and four-year-old in America, Silver and Ross urged the enrollment of New York’s four-year-olds in what the speaker infelicitously terms "a regiment of educational exposure."

46. Scientists’ Bookshelf: March-April 2000 Bookshelf Staff Book Review Editor Flora Taylor. In 1933, Harvard’s new president,chemist James Bryant Conant, informed two assistant deans of his plan to http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/abstracts00-03.html

Full Reviews Life Issues Artful Arrangement Ants Recast? Reams of Dreams Reviews in Brief SATs Tested New Moon Bookshelf Staff Book Review Editor Flora Taylor New Books Received Book Publishers Guidelines for Book Reviews ... March-April 2000 Subject Reviews March-April, Volume 88, No. 2 Mind Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language . Steven Pinker. 348 pp. Basic Books, 1999. $26. For the full text of this review, contact Jennifer Dorff to order this issue Reviewed by Evangeline A. Wheeler, Psychology, Towson University Education The Big Test : The Secret History of the American Meritocracy . Nicholas Lemann. 406 pp. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. $27. For the full text of this review, contact Jennifer Dorff to order this issue Reviewed by Malcolm J. Sherman, Mathematics, The University at Albany, SUNY Space The Moon : Resources, Future Development and Colonization For the full text of this review, contact Jennifer Dorff to order this issue Reviewed by Alexander Gurshtein, Astronomy, Space Research and History of Science, Mesa State College, Colorado Sigma Xi About Us Latest Issue Bookshelf ... Web Admin

47. Nonfiction / Education / Education Theory / Assessment telling the stories of men like Henry Chauncey and James Bryant Conant of Harvard BlackWhiteTest Score Gap by Christopher Jencks(Editor), Meredith Phillips http://halleducation.com/education_theory/4.shtml

Home Nonfiction Education Education Theory Assessment The Big Test : The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann Hardcover - 368 pages (October 1999) Amazon.com Nicholas Lemann's The Big Test starts off as a look at how the SAT became an integral part of the college application process by telling the stories of men like Henry Chauncey and James Bryant Conant of Harvard University, who sought in the 1930s and '40s to expand their student base beyond the... Read more by Adele Fiderer Scholastic Trade Paperback - 56 pages (July 1998) Synopsis Drawing on her extensive experience as a teacher, the author shares quick, clear, and easy rubrics for accessing students' work. These ideas will help students learn the qualities of a good performance and give parents a detailed picture of their children's progress. Read more Gre Verbal Workout (Princeton Review Series) by Yung Yee Wu Princeton Review Paperback - 243 pages (July 1997) Book Description GRE Verbal Workout is the only book on the market devoted exclusively to raising students' scores on the demanding verbal section of the GRE Features proven techniques for acing the analogy, reading comprehension, antonym, and sentence completion sections of the test

48. International Journal Of Learning And Intellectual Capital (IJLIC) Editorin-chief Dr. Patricia Ordoñez de Pablos Department of Business rcash@samford.edu,Professor Dr. Chris Argyris James Bryant Conant Professor, Graduate http://www.inderscience.com/catalogue/l/ijlic/ijliceditorial.html

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital (IJLIC) Members of the Editorial Board Editor-in-chief Department of Business Administration, The University of Oviedo, Facultad de Ciencias Economicas, Avd del Cristo, s/n 33.071 Oviedo ¡V Asturias, Spain E-mail: patriop@correo.uniovi.es Members of the Editorial Board Professor Dr. Pervaiz K. Ahmed Chair in Management, Wolverhampton Business School, University of Wolverhampton, Shropshire Campus, Shifnal Road, Priorslee, Telford TF2 9NT, UK E-mail: in6816@wbs.wlv.ac.uk Professor Dr. Guy Ahonen Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Management and Organization, P.O.B. 479, FIN-00101 Helsinki, Finland E-mail: guy.ahonen@shh.fi Dr Ruth C. Ash Dean, Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education and Professional Studies, Samford University

49. Old Science/Technology/Economics Price $ 10.00. Conant, James Bryant (Editor) Harvard Case Histories inExperimental Science, Volume 1 Harvard University Press, 1957 Cloth. http://www.angelfire.com/va/oldbooks/sci.html

Old Science/Technology/Economics SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY Branson, E.B., And W.A. Tarr "Introduction to Geology" McGraw-Hill, 1935 Cloth. No Jacket. First Edition, third impression. The 470 page hardbound book is in very good condition, fresh and clean inside and out except for a previous owners name stamp and address inside the front cover. Nicely illustrated. Price: $ 10.00. Bartok, William (editor) "Combustion of Synthetic Fuels (ACS Symposium Ser.) " Washington, DC, U.S.A.: American Chemical Society, 1983 ISBN: 0841207739 The 246 page hardbound book is in fine condition, in a very nice dust jacket. Price: $ 10.00. Conant, James Bryant (editor) "Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Volume 1" Harvard University Press, 1957 Cloth. The 321 page hardbound book is in very good condition, clean with no page tears or pen marks, in a good+ dust jacket. Volume 1 (of a 2 volume set) which relates developments in science to those in the other fields of human activity. This volume examines Robert Boyle's experiments in pneumatics; the overthrow of the phlogiston theory, the chemical revolution of 1775-1789; early development of the concepts of temperature and heat; and atomic-molecular theory. Price: $ 10.00. "Surgical Treatment; A Practical Treatise on the Therapy of Surgical Diseases" by James Warbasse and Calvin Smyth, in 3 Volumes with a 4th separate General Index, published in 1937. This is a very nice set. Volume I is 906 pages, Volume II is 782 pages, Volume III is 798 pages, and the Index is 131 pages. All are in very good condition, clean with no page tears or pen marks other than a previous owners name inside the front covers. Includes 2,486 illustrations, some in color. Burgundy cloth covers with gold lettering on the spines. A very attractive set. Available for $30.

50. Byrne Report Conant, James Bryant, Education and Liberty, The Role of the Schools in a ModernDemocracy. Erikson, Erik H., Editor, Youth, Change and Challenge. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:2020/dynaweb/teiproj/fsm/reports/brk00039260a/@Gener

Expand Search Byrne Report Bibliography Bibliography I. General References on Higher Education Abbott, Frank C., editor, Faculty-Administration Relationships, Report of a Work Conference May 7-9, 1957, Sponsored by the Commission on Instruction and Evaluation of the American Council on Education . Washington, D. C.: the Council, 1958. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, "The Contemporary University: U.S.A.," Daedalus , Fall, 1964. Cambridge, Mass.: the Academy, 1964. American Assembly, Columbia University, The Federal Government and Higher Education . Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1960. American Association of University Professors, Compensation Survey 1964-65 , unpublished preliminary analyses. Washington, D. C.: the Association, 1965. American Civil Liberties Union, Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility . New York: the Union, 1956. American Civil Liberties Union, Academic Freedom and Civil Liberties of Students in Colleges and Universities . New York: the Union, 1963. Bay, Christian, "Education for Freedom," The Stanford Challenger , March, 1965, pp. 3-14.

51. Radcliffe Quarterly: Talking With Nicholas Lemann of how then Harvard President James Bryant Conant and Henry the technology of testing,while Conant saw testing as he suggested to his Editor, Elisabeth Sifton http://www.radcliffe.edu/quarterly/200002/justice-18.html

N e w s a n d P u b l i c a t i o n s Radcliffe Quarterly - Spring 2000 Aspects of Justice Talking with Nicholas Lemann by Elise O'Shaughnessy After reading Nicholas Lemann's latest book, I call him to say that I'm a bit appalled by what I've learned. The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy is the story of how then Harvard President James Bryant Conant and Henry Chauncey, founder of the Educational Testing Service (which administers the SATs), set out to reengineer the American system of higher educationand its repercussions for our society. Lemann's is a dramatic tale, occasionally even a shocking one. Both the author and I are members of the resulting "meritocracy," selected for success at age sixteen more or less on the basis of our SAT scores, and it has struck me that I'm a beneficiary of great unfairness. Does he feel the same way? Lemann's last book

52. WCF 1:Bill Kauffman Kauffman, novelist and man of letters, is the associate Editor of The The king ofconsolidation was James Bryant Conant, the Harvard University president who http://kennedy.byu.edu/wldfampolcenter/kauffman.html

Bill Kauffman Bill Kauffman, novelist and man of letters, is the associate editor of The Family in America, published by the Rockford Institute. His books include Every Man a King, America First! and Country Towns of New York. He is an historian of forgotten political and social movements and a fierce defender of local identity. THINK LOCALLY, ACT LOCALLY, LIVE LOCALLY: EDUCATION ON THE HUMAN SCALE I live in the rural western part of New York State: a land of dairy farms and finger lakes, of proud lady ghosts and the desolate beauty of winter. It is unlike any other place on earth, except that, like every other place on earth, it is beleaguered by Strangers Who Know Best. The latest assault is a bipartisan collaborationas mischief usually isbetween the Republican lieutenant governor, Betsy McCaughey Ross, whom the New York Post once described as having the "brain of Henry Kissinger and the body of Jessica Rabbit," and Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who, alas, possesses the brain of Jessica Rabbit and the body of Henry Kissinger. The tandem of Silver and Ross propose to make all-day kindergarten mandatory for New York’s alarmingly unregulated five-year-olds. And taking a cue from the Carnegie Corporation’s Task Force on Learning in the Primary Grades, which recommended the incarceration in school of every three and four-year-old in America, Silver and Ross urged the enrollment of New York’s four-year-olds in what the speaker infelicitously terms "a regiment of educational exposure."

53. BookRags E-Book: Organic Syntheses Featured EBooks Top 100 Classics More Classics, Organic Syntheses James Bryant Conant,Editor Next Jump to Table of Contents. http://www.bookrags.com/books/rgsyn/PART1.htm

Comprehensive Guides to Classic Literature Search Book Notes and E-Books Browse By Letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Featured E-Books Top 100 Classics More Classics Organic Syntheses James Bryant Conant, Editor Next Table of Contents INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES ... I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV INDEX INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES THE publication of this series of pamphlets has been undertaken to make available in a permanent form complete detailed directions for the preparation of various organic chemical reagents. In announcing this purpose it may be well to mention at the outset some of the difficulties in the way of the research chemist, which it is hoped this series will be able to overcome. The cost of chemicals is prohibitive to the majority of chemists; this was true before the war when Kahlbaum's complete supply was available, and to-day with our dependence on domestic stocks, this cost has increased. The delay in obtaining chemicals, especially from abroad, even if the expense need not be considered, is an important factor. These difficulties have therefore thrown the research chemist on his own resources. The preparation of materials for research, always time

54. BookRags E-Book: Organic Syntheses Classics, Organic Syntheses James Bryant Conant, Editor Previous Next Jump to Table of Contents. http://www.bookrags.com/books/rgsyn/PART20.htm

Comprehensive Guides to Classic Literature Search Book Notes and E-Books Browse By Letter A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Featured E-Books Top 100 Classics More Classics Organic Syntheses James Bryant Conant, Editor Previous Next Table of Contents INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES ... I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV INDEX XIX PHENYLHYDRAZINE HCl + NaNO2 + HCl> C6H5N2Cl + NaCl + 2H2O C6H5N2Cl HCl Prepared by G. H. COLEMAN. Checked by J. B. CONANT and H. R. THOMPSON. 1. Procedure IN a 12-l. round-bottom flask, fitted with a mechanical stirrer, are placed 1045 cc. of concentrated commercial hydrochloric acid (sp. gr. 1.138). The flask is surrounded with a freezing mixture of ice and salt, and when the contents are at 0'0, stirring is started and 500 g. of cracked ice are added; then 372 g. of aniline, also cooled to 0'0, are run in during five minutes. The mixture is treated with 500 g. more of cracked ice, and a cold solution (0'0) of 290 g. of technical sodium nitrite dissolved in 600 cc. of water are allowed to run in slowly (twenty to thirty minutes) from a dropping funnel, the end of which is drawn to a small tip

55. Yale Review Of Books: The Big Test Susannah Rutherglen is a freshman in Saybrook and an Editor of the YRB. It beginsat Harvard University in the 1930s James Bryant Conant, Harvard’s president http://www.yale.edu/yrb/summer00/review8.htm

Vol. 3, Number 2 Summer 2000 The Scantron Aristocracy Does the SAT Measure Merit? Does Merit Matter? The Big Test reviewed by Susannah Rutherglen by Nicholas Lemann, Susannah Rutherglen is a freshman in Saybrook and an editor of the YRB. Save $8.10 at Amazon.com! Read chapter 1 In 1964, a young Texan arrived at Yale University. He was a member of the old-boy network that dominated Yale at the time-the “Baxter Thatcher Hatcher” crowd, as Calvin Trillin has called it. Their Yale was little more than a second boarding school for rich white boys: no one studied too hard, and the two major admissions criteria were a legacy and an Andover diploma. George W. Bush had both. He joined the Deke fraternity, played intramural sports, and accumulated a rack of gentleman’s Cs. The same year, Yale’s president, Kingman Brewster, declared his intention to make Yale more than “a finishing school on Long Island Sound.” He hired a new dean of admissions, Inky Clark, who destroyed the university as Bush knew it. No longer would Yale be a posh playground for the rich; from now on, grades and test scores would determine who was admitted. In fact, none of Bush’s three younger brothers went to Yale: their spots had been taken by a new elite, the “meritocracy”-those who had done well in school. As Nicholas Lemann explains in his excellent book, The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, the story of this change is complex and disturbing. It begins at Harvard University in the 1930s: James Bryant Conant, Harvard’s president, decided to require applicants to take an intelligence test designed by a eugenicist. This was, believe it or not, the SAT, and Conant had high hopes for it. He wanted to use intelligence testing to eliminate the old aristocracy that filled America’s elite universities, and to replace it with a “meritocracy” of talented young men. They would become the country’s new Platonic guardians, leading their countrymen to equality and prosperity.

56. SDP - Staff SDP Yale Faculty Profiles Pioneering Achievement in Education, 1991; the James Bryant Conant Award, presented Joynerhas worked with Dr. James P. Comer or suggestions to the site Editor http://info.med.yale.edu/comer/about/profiles.html

Program Overview Publications Staff Profiles Keyword Search: Comer Site Med center Site Yale Site Comer School Development Program 55 College Street New Haven CT, 06510 (203) 737-1020 Tel. (203) 737-1023 Fax About Comer SDP Staff Profiles SDP Yale Faculty Implementation Coordinators SDP Administrative Support Staff SDP Yale Faculty James P. Comer , M.D. , M.P.H. Marie Bollers , M.Ed. Fay E. Brown , Ph.D. Christine Emmons , Ph.D. Camille J. Cooper , M.Ed. Everol Ennis , M.A. Patrick Howley , M.S., C.A.G.S. Edward T. Joyner , Ed.D. Marie Ann Levett-Lowe , Ed.D Valerie Maholmes , Ph.D. James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H., the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine's Child Study Center, has been a Yale medical faculty member since 1968. During these years, he has concentrated his career on promoting a focus on child development as a way of improving schools. His efforts in support of healthy development of young people are known internationally. Dr. Comer, perhaps, is best known for the founding of the Comer School Development Program in 1968, which promotes the collaboration of parents, educators, and community to improve social, emotional, and academic outcomes for children that, in turn, helps them achieve greater school success. His concept of teamwork is improving the educational environment in more than 500 schools throughout America.

57. The Big Test Nathan Glazer James Bryant Conant and Henry Chauncey play key roles, and in the early 1930s, asConant becomes president of emeritus at Harvard University, coEditor of The http://slate.msn.com/id/2000118/entry/1003687/

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Search ... Money document.write('') Search the Web: powered by MSN Search Print E-mail Discuss Alerts ... About Us Search Slate Advanced Search the book club New books dissected over e-mail. The Big Test Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri From: David Brooks Monday, September 27, 1999, at 10:47 AM PT Dear Nat, I've been looking forward to this book for a long time, and I find myself impressed, annoyed, and disappointed. I'm tremendously impressed by the first chunk of the book, which is a description of the emergence of the SAT-tested meritocracy. Lemann is emerging as our leading chronicler of hugely important but under-reported events. And the social transformation he captures here is momentous. It is nothing less than the death of one elitethe WASP Establishmentand the rise of anotherthe meritocratic establishment. We all sense that this transformation occurred sometime after World War II. Lemann won't like me invoking them, but in The Bell Curve , Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein include one fact that starkly illustrates the shift. In 1952, the average verbal SAT score for incoming freshmen at Harvard was 583. Ninety percent of all applicants whose fathers had gone to Harvard were admitted. By 1960, the average verbal SAT score was 678. The middle student in the 1952 class would have been at the bottom of the 1960 class. The WASP gentlemen had been replaced by brainy strivers. While telling us about Conant and Chauncey, Lemann keeps reminding us about the fundamental issues at stake and the central problems inherent in a meritocracy. The new SAT-based system gave some people more opportunity but also closed off opportunity for people who couldn't ace the tests. Furthermore, weren't Conant and Chauncey just undermining one system of social rank and replacing it with another, and possibly even more rigid, one? I am much friendlier to the current elite than Lemann is, but he is right to raise all these issues.

58. Interview - 99.10.06 society falls short of what James Bryant Conant, Henry Chauncey, and I think Conantmistakenly assumed that the Katie Bacon is the executive Editor of Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba991007.htm

In his new book, The Big Test, Nicholas Lemann argues that the structure of educational opportunity in America is inherently flawed and must be rebuilt October 7, 1999 F ew can imagine America's educational system without the SAT and the other standardized tests that serve as engines of advancement through our schools. These tests have become the primary means of distributing educational opportunity in the United States, and they are the foundation of a system that has radically changed the way American society is organized. Yet, as Nicholas Lemann argues in his new book, The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, Recent Atlantic Unbound interviews: Setting the Record Straight (September 22, 1999) Edward Said, author of a new memoir, Out of Place, talks about Beethoven, the Oslo Accords, Arafat, and the "enormous fabrication of lies" printed in this month's Commentary. A Certain Logic (September 9, 1999) An Atlantic Unbound interview with Richard Wilbur, a poet who doesn't care for "perfection." Buddy, Can You Spare Some Time?

59. Records For Education -- United States -- 1945- (in VSCCAT) Benton reports of 19561958 on the nature of the Soviet threat / by William Benton,Edward W. Barrett, Editor. The citadel of learning / James Bryant Conant. http://scolar.vsc.edu:8003/VSCCAT/@EDUCATION UNITED STATES/aa2020001000/0

Education United States 1945- Records 1 to 15 of 74 Adler, Irving. What we want of our schools; plain talk on education, from theory to budgets. New York, J. Day Co. [1957] Holdings: Castleton State College CALL NUMBER: 370.973 Ad59w Book Available American Association of School Administrators. Commission on Imperatives in Education. Imperatives in education. Washington : American Association of School Administrators, [1966] Castleton State College CALL NUMBER: 371 Am35 1966 Book Available Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Forces affecting American education : 1953 yearbook / Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, a department of the National Education Association. Washington : ASCD, c1953. Holdings at other locations: See the additional holdings for this title. Bell, Bernard Iddings, 1886- Crowd culture : an examination of the American way of life / Benard Iddings Bell. New York : Harper, 1952. Holdings at other locations: See the additional holdings for this title. Benton, William, 1900-1973.

60. The Economics Of Antimalarial Drugs as Professor of Economics (19681974) and as James Bryant Conant University Professor ProfessorDanzon is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics http://www4.nas.edu/webcr.nsf/CommitteeDisplay/BOGH-H-01-01-A?OpenDocument

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