Now you can't get any white-collar job without having gone to college. So the country really has to deliver on the mass opportunity side of the equation through improving the education system and not worry so much about elite selection. Conant thought, if I take care of elite selection, everything else will take care of itself. That did not happen. Instead of reforming the test, you would reform curriculum and reform the way we help kids meet the standards of the curriculum.
Tests are tools.
You don't start by writing a test and then ask the world to adapt to it. You start by deciding what you want to do and then devise a test to accomplish that thing. The SAT is devised to pull the superstars out of the public school system and not affect the public school system at all. So you'd say to the kid, yes, you still have to take a college admissions test at the end of high school, but it's going to be test a on what you actually learned in school. There are a lot of folks that try to go down the road of a national curriculum, national testing.