Dr. Les Perelman, director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tells Linda Wertheimer why he thinks the new SAT essay misses the mark. For one thing, he says, too ...
A massive row errupted after The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suspended Prahlad Iyengar, Indian-origin student, due to an essay he wrote for the college magazine. The suspension came ...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has suspended an Indian-origin PhD scholar over a pro-Palestine essay he wrote in the college magazine last month. Prahlad Iyengar, who is barred from ...
A language researcher and former MIT professor is giving computer-generated essay marking systems a failing grade. Les Perelman, who recently retired from his writing research post at MIT, says that ...
This weekend, hundreds of thousands of high-school students across the nation, and perhaps in other parts of the world, will sharpen their number-two pencils and sit down to take the SAT. The exam ...