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To: j g cordes who wrote (34509)	4/12/1999 12:36:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>>>>>How would you broaden the availability of self worth and economic reward?<<<<< One does it for oneself. I have the self worth I earned, I have the economic reward I earned. I can't do it for you, and you can't do it for me.

To: j g cordes who wrote (34509)	4/12/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Steven, SAT's are used as much to measure state funding and support of local public and private schools as they are for measuring students ability to perform in college. The test is used for many things; it is designed to predict academic performance in the first year of college, and that is the yardstick against which it should be measured. Since it seems improbable we will live in a measureless society where pay and other rewards don't gravitate to those who perform better at tests, work or creativity, what can be done to balance the scales? Simple. Eliminate tests, which do nobody any good, and reward those who perform better at work and creativity, which do a great deal of good. Attempts to objectively measure what is inherently subjective will always backfire.