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Sheepskins are for Sheep

A few months ago, I wrote an article for the Atlantic about the deficiencies of standardized aptitude tests such as the “College Boards.” I had been planning for some time to write a complementary article for this magazine about the importance of assessing actual competence rather than aptitude, when one of the letters the Atlantic […]