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...Mansfield, long known for his rigorous grading, shocked the campus with a new grading trick this year. Voicing adamant aversion to grade inflation, a “glaring flaw in American education,” Mansfield announced at the beginning of the spring semester that he would assign two sets of grades to the students in Government 1061: “Modern Political Philosophy”--initial grades, centered around a C, would accurately reflect the quality of students’ work and compare them to their peers. The second set of grades, the ones submitted to the registrar, would...
...write myself a note, then drag the Chatpen across the send box. The note appears almost instantaneously on the laptop screen. I draw a flower: on the paper it's in plain black ink, but I use the Chatpen to assign colors to the different lines. I check "send" again: a pretty, colorful flower appears on the laptop screen. O.K., not so pretty: I'm as bad at drawing as writing, but the colors are good. For variation I write on a Post-it note, then on an organizer. It all works perfectly. Regrettably my handwriting doesn't improve: some...
...entirely one-sided deal, either. The Sox players would benefit as well. Contract negotiations could be settled with relative ease. For example, if Pedro Martinez wants more money, he could sit in your office, call up a few old Senators for help and get you to assign a committee to study how much he should make. Painless...
...Tokyo Metropolitan Police would eventually assign more officers to this case than it had to the 1995 sarin gas attack in the city subway system that had killed 12 and injured 5,500. They finally got their suspect on Oct. 12 when a 48-year-old Japanese businessman named Joji Obara was detained in connection with Lucie's disappearance. On April 6, Obara, who has steadfastly maintained his innocence, was charged with her death: a rape that apparently turned into murder. Police officials, speaking off the record to the Japanese press, suggest he may have raped as many...
...schools, Parker says, are sacrificing important lessons in science, social studies and foreign languages to focus on concepts that will be tested. High school biology students no longer dissect frogs. "I can't spare two weeks for that," says teacher Steffany LaBree. A U.S. history teacher doesn't assign research papers because they don't help him prepare students for state-mandated tests. The town's educators say they don't oppose accountability. Many of them prefer the method adopted by states such as Vermont, in which independent reviewers assess portfolios of student work. Many educators also oppose harsh consequences...