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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Letter in the LA Times

FWIW, I recently had a letter in the LA Times, in which I critiqued a proposal to do away with standardized tests in college admissions.

Posted by Alex Small at 6:50 PM

Labels: LA Times, Standardized Tests

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Alex Small: Pomona, CA, United States; I'm an associate professor of physics at Cal Poly Pomona. My research interests are mostly in biomedical applications of optics (especially theoretical limits to superresolution, and also light scattering calculations), with some side interests in percolation theory. I am using this blog to chronicle my responses to books that I'm reading, particularly books about higher education issues. It's a way to work out issues in my mind.

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