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...92—flagged classrooms in which students’ exams evinced unusual strings of identical answers in the middle of the test. The researchers found that some teachers were actually altering their students’ tests—erasing wrong answers and filling in the correct bubbles themselves—to boost scores. The study resulted in six teachers being fired and three principals being strongly reprimanded. As students prepare for final exams, let them be forewarned: with an economist like Levitt on your case, any monkey business in your blue-books will get you caught...
...bill's supporters say it would not establish a national ID card, since no one has to get a driver's license or state ID. That's correct. Such documents are useful only if you need to drive, fly, cash checks, apply for certain jobs or enter federal buildings. If you are a wealthy recluse with liquid assets, it doesn't concern...
...administration lists 96 terms it wants to hear less of. Many are obvious: Don't call the physically handicapped cripples or the mentally handicapped mongoloids, and when describing Afro-Brazilians, steer clear of the Portuguese equivalent of the N word. But the list, whose heading includes the phrase politically correct, goes on to advise against using drunks, because even alcoholics deserve respect; Africans, because the term diminishes individual nationalities; old people, because elderly doesn't carry as much stigma; and street children, because many of those young people have homes. The list also urges Brazilians to stop calling foreigners gringos...
...even when companies take all the correct steps, getting the rights to use the name of America’s oldest college proves difficult...
It’s all in a days work for Calixto, whose job is to correct such blatant misuses of the Harvard trademark—first by approaching those directly involved and, if unsuccessful, through more severe legal measures...