Online editor Shilpa Banerji provides an intriguing look at Harvard University psychologist Dr. Mahzarin R. Banaji, one of the developers of the Implicit Association Test. The IAT, as Banerji reports, uncovers social biases a test taker may harbor yet not consciously acknowledge. Some three million people have taken the test since it has gone online.
Writer Ann Farmer reports in “From the Inner City to the Elite” about Vassar College’s Exploring Transfer program, which exposes socially disadvantaged community college students to life at a four-year institution. In 21 years, the program has helped attract some 100 students to enroll at Vassar, while 800 to 900 have gone on to other four-year institutions.
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