Kurtz, a pioneering mathematician at Dartmouth College and an inventor of the simplified computer programming ... who didn’t have a technical background,” John McGeachie, who helped build ...

The Dartmouth study challenges the long-standing criticism that standardized tests, like the ACT and the College Board's SAT, hurt students from marginalized backgrounds when it comes to admissions.

“It was more about making computers usable by all sorts of people, who didn’t have a technical background ... to test a new computer in the basement of College Hall at Dartmouth in 1964.Credit ...