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...headlines. Test scores keep dropping. Debate rages over whether or not one-fifth or more adult Americans are functionally illiterate. High school graduates go so far as to sue their school systems because they got respectable grades and a diploma but cannot fill in job application forms correctly. Experts confirm that students today get at least 25% more As and Bs than they did 15 years ago, but know less. A Government-funded nationwide survey group, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, reports that in science, writing, social studies and mathematics the achievement of U.S. 17-year-olds has dropped...
Research by W. Timothy Weaver, an associate professor of education at Boston University, seems to confirm a long-standing charge that one of the easiest U.S. college majors is education. Weaver found the high school seniors who planned to major in education well below the average for all college-bound seniors-34 points below average in verbal scores on the 1976 Scholastic Aptitude Test, 43 points below average in math. Teaching majors score lower in English than majors in almost every other field...
...example recently joined Tufts' president Jean Mayer in signing a letter to Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie which calls for repealing the INS policy. Bok says he doubts the government's policy will affect the hostage situation and labels Carter's motivations "rather obscure." State Department spokesmen confirm that the department has received Bok and Mayer's letter but decline to say what their response will...
...overresponse seems mad, while much of the novel's power stems from the likelihood that he is sane. This confusion may be irritating on the surface; it also serves the author's purpose perfectly. Doctor Fischer coexists. He chases the very vision of infinite betrayal that will confirm his trust; he pursues evil in the hope of finding its limit, and good on the other side. He meets himself, finally, on that border that Graham Greene long ago plotted for his age. -Paul Gray
Robert Shenton, secretary to the Corporation, yesterday refused to confirm that Cronkite will receive the degree because "the names of recipients are kept confidential until Commencement...