I mean, it’s really silly for anyone to care about your undergrad grades if you have a Ph.D.—but it’s nonetheless routine for academic jobs to require that you provide undergrad transcripts!
If I recall, a right-wing think tank (Heritage, AEI?) published an article purporting to show that p.s. teachers are overpaid relative to their counterparts in the private sector. It used SAT scores as THE measure of cognitive ability. It was obvious that the authors started with that conclusion...
2/ ... and worked backwards from there. It was published shortly before Sandy Hook. I wonder if that piece was the start of using SATs beyond college admissions. The authors, citing themselves, claimed SATs were the new method. Again, I'm working from memory; my details might be off.
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