The perils, once again, of the passive voice

by Roger Sutton
Oct 18, 2008 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
The headline led me to believe this was another old-school Chicago scandal but it's apparently just shameless bribery at work.
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Roger Sutton

>Wow, Monica, that scheme was positively baroque! Baylor offered accepted freshman a few hundred dollars in bookstore credit to retake the SAT, and a thousand if their scores went up fifty points. Baylor claimed it was a way to distribute leftover scholarship money; critics said it was a way to raise the average SAT score of accepted students, thus potentially plumping Baylor's rating in the U.S. News and World Report rankings. Baylor has now discontinued the program.

Posted : Oct 19, 2008 02:58

Monica Edinger

>And how about those Baylor kids who got bucks for retaking the SATs?

Posted : Oct 18, 2008 07:55

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