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Article: China's Test-Prep Tempest; As Scores Rise, U.S. Group Alleges Cheating
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Philip P. Pan Washington Post Foreign Service
The Washington Post
02-21-2001
China's Test-Prep Tempest; As Scores Rise, U.S. Group Alleges Cheating
Byline: Philip P. Pan Washington Post Foreign Service
Edition: FINAL
Section: A Section
BEIJING, Feb. 20 --
-- To many people here, Michael Yu is a hero, a teacher with humble
roots who built China's largest test-preparation school and helped tens
of thousands of Chinese students get into U.S. universities. But to the
Educational Testing Service, the nonprofit American organization that administers
U.S. graduate school admissions exams and the undergraduate Scholastic
Assessment Test, Yu is a liar, a cheat and a thief.
In a lawsuit filed in China ...