Book Trailer - GateKEEPERS by Stone & Schmerl

Book Trailer for the political novel GateKEEPERS. A young Ohio architect, Nathan Goldstein, testifies at a 1979 Congressional subcommittee hearing about his experiences with the national examination required to obtain his license to practice his profession. A retired professor of English, Walter Rubin, visits Ellis Island searching for meaning in his memories of his arrival there in the 1930's. In 2005, their stories come together in GateKEEPERS, a tale of academic and professional intrigue whose parallels in the larger world echo in both their lives and in the events of their times. Retired professor Walter Rubin inherits the diaries of his late friend Harry Rosenberg, and finds himself fascinated by hints of a 30-year-old conspiracy to ruin a promising student's career.

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NOTE: This story, based on one Ohio architects experience with this system, is technically fiction. What is not fiction, however, is the architects experience, nor his long struggle to see to it that no others in his profession would have to endure anything comparable including his testimony (fictionalized in GateKEEPERS) concerning The Truth in Testing Act of 1979 and The Educational Testing Act of 1979 before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor United States House of Representatives Ninety-Sixth Congress Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education and Labor. Including the removal and replacement of the national architects licensing exam approximately two years after his testimony.

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[Tengobaila]

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