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By Derrick Z. Jackson | Saturday, March 28, 2009 | The Boston Globe

“…John Hope Franklin left us with a warning. The most important was on education. In a 2000 telephone interview, I felt his then-85 years seethe over the line from his home in Durham, N.C. To him, the use of standardized tests in our public schools to measure academic ability had gone way too far. He said it reminded him of 1935, when he walked from his historically African-American Fisk University, to white Vanderbilt University to take a test for a graduate studies program at Harvard….”…BS

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/03/28/heeding_john_hope_franklins_education_warning?mode=PF