You can read this quote by The Root contributor Ivory A. Toldson, in a column about how standardized tests are not necessarily the best measurement of college success, here.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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