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The current tornado of political activity about affirmative action, voter initiatives labeled “pro civil rights,” and legal rulings on college admissions policies have thrown the higher education community into the center of a troubling national debate. Testing organizations join higher education at this vortex as standardized tests are simultaneously the presumed culprit and the presumed solution for many of these difficult issues.
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Cole, N.S. (1999). Epilogue: Part 3 Merit and Opportunity: Testing and Higher Education at the Vortex. In: Nettles, A.L., Nettles, M.T. (eds) Measuring Up. Evaluation in Education and Human Services, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4399-8_12
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