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...Setting the Record Straight ? Number problems Our March 20 Milestone on the death of Minnesota Twins outfielder Kirby Puckett said he led the team to World Series titles in 1991 and 1994. The correct years were 1987 and 1991. We also misstated the number of home runs Puckett hit in Game 6 of the 1991 Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...blog for the Harvard Republican Club. The post noted that official inquiries in Colombia have cleared Coke on human rights charges, and that the company has cooperated with outside investigations into its labor practices.Reilly has also created Students for a Fair Hearing on Coke, a group that will help correct what he perceives to be factual errors in SLAM’s arguments.According to Reilly, Students for a Fair Hearing on Coke neither supports nor opposes Coke. “We want to make sure students have two viable options,” Reilly said. “We just...

Author: By Benjamin L. Weintraub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cola Controversy Riles Up Princeton | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...knees and tells them news and stories. They go to church twice on Sundays and travel often within New Zealand and occasionally overseas. Three times a day they eat together as a family. "Visitors will say, 'You're not doing any schooling at all!' I'll say, 'You're correct. However, the children are learning heaps, and they're learning it in the context of everyday life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School's Out Forever | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

...these tests in charting student performance. “Over the last several years, there have been a few errors discovered by students,” he said. In addition to grading mistakes, some of these errors have included questions without answers and questions that have more than one correct answer, according to Schaeffer. These errors did not factor into the scoring of the exams because they came to light soon after the tests were administered. Schaeffer said that the human error inherent in the design and scoring of standardized tests should reduce the emphasis placed on the MCAS...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Standardized Tests Still Hold Sway | 4/7/2006 | See Source »

...even completely off the political spectrum. If the federal government imposes a curriculum, which is essentially what standardized testing does, it will limit the way schools can teach and even what they are allowed to teach because they will have to pander to the arbitrary, supposedly neutral and politically correct standards of some national education advisory committee. It would be difficult for the government to dictate that private universities use standardized testing because this would clearly violate basic constitutional limitations on federal power; simply put, Congress does not have the right to impose arbitrary standards on non-essential, private educational...

Author: By Shai D. Bronshtein, | Title: Standardization Without Reason | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

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