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...doubt there is a correlation between socioeconomic status and SAT scores. A survey of SAT-takers in 2003 revealed that only 14 percent of students who scored over 1420 were from families in the bottom 40 percent of income brackets. Moreover, 46 percent of those test-takers scoring over 1420 came from families in the top quintile in income level. Critics of the current SAT believe this demonstrates the degree to which test scores are determined by background and preparation. In fact, this does not actually explain the numbers. A 2005 College Board survey found that, on average, SAT tutoring...
...kind of longer term economic dislocation that led to the rise of Adolf Hitler. "Four months ago," says economist Schmidt, "I might have said that it may not get worse. But we have not seen anything like this before. I cannot say that we have reached the bottom. I am afraid that may not be the case." - With reporting by Catherine Mayer / London...
...Obama's Missouri plan also mirrors his national strategy, McCaskill says. "It's a metaphor for the way Obama sees his job, governing from the bottom up," she says. Renting Main Street storefronts in small-town Missouri and staffing them with paid workers is a way of proving that he can reach out to all walks of American life. No way, no how, Obama's staffers insist, will they do as John Kerry did in 2004, waving the white flag in Missouri a full three weeks before Election Day to pour his resources elsewhere. "We need to make sure...
...maintaining one’s integrity.“I remember talking with my father about the intersection of making money and the preservation of your reputation,” Grossman said. “He taught me that it was possible not only to be proud of your bottom line but to also be proud of the name you made for yourself through a reputation in the business community for integrity.”That lesson stayed with Grossman even after his father, who owned a packaging distribution company, died early in Grossman’s business career...
...conservative politics and society. This election has provided a healthy portion of such media, from heavyweights like The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Saturday Night Live, but there’s something remarkably different that sets their style apart from that of the conservatives. At the bottom of it all, what I think it comes down to is truth. More and more of John Stewart’s laughs come from beautiful montages of actual video illustrating the hypocrisy of Bush, McCain, and Karl Rove, and SNL’s highest ratings in years had Tina Fey portraying...