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Date |
Authors |
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Brief Description |
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Would
Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore? |
The Atlantic |
March 2004 |
Katzman, Lutz, and Olson |
Ruth Ryan |
How several well-known writers (and the Unabomber) would fare on the new SAT |
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Ivy league
gets a run for its money on top seniors Recently ran in the Boston
Globe, which is where this link will take you. |
LA Times |
May 11, 2004 |
Stuart Silverstein, Times
Staff Writer |
Ruth Ryan |
Jordan J. Hayles,
valedictorian of her senior class this year at Murphy High School in
Mobile, Ala., had her pick of some of the nation's most esteemed colleges.
Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, MIT and Stanford all accepted her. So why
did Hayles recently decide on Emory University in Atlanta, a highly regarded
institution but more often a place students choose when they can't get into
an Ivy League school? |
The Prop 2 1/2 Diet
This links you to the abbreviated article in the H-W Chronicle. |
H-W Chronicle |
May 13, 2004 |
Hamilton resident and guest
columnist Rick Sprenkle |
Tom Rogers |
Rick Sprenkle takes an in depth look at
Proposition 2 1/2. How does a diet of 2.5% increases compare to:
Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA); The Consumer Price Index;
Professional and Business Salary Growth.
Click here for a
direct link to the full study, which includes charts. |
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Meager Evaluations Make
It Hard to Find Out What Works |
Science |
June 11, 2004 |
Jeffrey Mervis |
Judene Shelley |
A popular buzzword in U.S. education these days is discovering “what works.”
The Education Department even funds a “What Works Clearinghouse” on programs
ranging from teaching math to reducing schoolyard violence. This
heightened interest in assessment stems from the massive 2001 education
reform bill—known as the No Child Left Behind Act—which requires school
districts to offer programs shown to be effective through “scientifically
based research.” But there’s a dirty little secret behind that requirement:
No program has yet met that rigorous standard....... |
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