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...goal was to craft rigorous learning standards that would give students the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in college and in the 21st century workplace. The group recommended that every Michigan student, whether college-bound or not, be required to complete four years of English and math; three years of science and social studies; two years of foreign language; one year of phys ed; one in a course covering visual, performing or applied arts, as well as an online course-not necessarily for credit-offered by Michigan's web-based Virtual High School or another Internet instruction provider...
...those who say they aren't planning to go to college consider the new rules an unfair burden. At a student assembly, McFarlane heard cries of "Why us?" when she announced the changes. Her response: "Because it's the right thing to do." Renee Bojanowski is a college-bound junior and honors student at Roosevelt. She says the grousing notwithstanding, the urgent need for a new attitude is beginning to sink in among members of the student body. When a university admissions director met with seniors recently and told them that they will need more than a diploma to qualify...
...bound for deep space again. In a rare double hit of good-news headlines last week, NASA announced first that it has firmed up its plans for America's return to the moon and then, two days later, that it had discovered signs that water had flowed on the surface of Mars within the past seven years. Where there is water, of course, there could be life...
...Commerce and State Department officials to up their efforts “to ensure that universities understand when to apply export controls.” Harvard’s chief lobbyist responded favorably to the report’s recommendations. “The commission is striking an appropriate bound between regulation and allowing the rapid exchange of information that leads to innovation,” said the senior director of federal and state relations, Kevin Casey, in a phone interview. According to Casey, Harvard not only strongly adheres to export control policies, but it trains its students in compliance...
...remembers that many parents anticipated her book to document step-by-step directions for how to raise Harvard-bound progeny, but “they were in for a surprise...