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    The Teacher Selection Project was a pilot study to develop methods of measuring and predicting psychological factors, including authoritarianism, in candidates for teaching positions in the New York City public schools. It was a joint project of the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York and the Bank Street College of Education on behalf of the New York City Board of Examiners. The project sought to develop a scientifically valid method of selecting the best candidates as teachers for the public schools, based on personality traits and social psychological criteria. The underlying premises of the study were grounded in research on the "the authoritarian personality" conducted by Theodor W. Adorno, et al., as reported in their book The Authoritarian Personality [1950].