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...home-school advocates counter that a teacher's certificate is no guarantee of success. They cite study after study showing that home-schooled children excel on standardized tests. While the national average is in the 50th percentile, the average home-schooled students register between the 65th and 80th percentiles. Nor is this unconventional background necessarily a disadvantage when students apply for college. With no grade-point averages or class ranks, no chance to edit the yearbook or captain the soccer team, home- schooled students must have top test scores to win admission to the most selective schools. But many colleges...
...said he questions the scholarship of the researchers Clark and Kennedy cite that assert the superiority of Blacks...
...What is really the point in books of the sort is to read the original studies that they cite," said Henderson Professor of the Psychology of Personality Brendan A. Maher, who said he has read a good part of the book. "The book's use of other people's research was done in a reasonably valid way. They did go and look at the questions that should be looked...
...staff at the time was Jewish, he was accused of anti-Semitism. Have we seen this pattern before? If you are wondering if this is my only take on the issue, it is not. An editorial published in the 1992 February supplement of the Peninsula, not a magazine I cite often, by a self-identified white Roman Catholic who was on The Crimson board, agrees with me. He plainly states that "...because the Harvard Crimson doesn't like Dr. Counter, the Crimson interpreted the remarks in his letter as something sinister and evil, when a much more reasonable explanation beckoned...
Although they cite my letter correctly, my words were not intended to reflect my own opinion of Philippine Forum's events...