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...Marina H. Hart, ’07, eats at the dining hall for more than half of her meals but says, “I go through bouts: last May I couldn’t handle it anymore because Annenberg was disgusting so I used my credit card at The Wrap all the time and it got really expensive.” Heymann also says she sometimes gets “disconcerted with the dining hall and eats at John Harvard’s—the frequency adds up and my parents start to notice...
...credit, the College Board has taken its detractors seriously. The National Academy of Sciences report offered "really good criticism," says Trevor Packer, executive director of AP programs. In response, Packer says the company has sought funds from the National Science Foundation to improve its biology, physics and chemistry courses. A retooling of the U.S. History program is also under way. But those changes will fix only part of the problem. AP courses and exams are created by teams of university professors who periodically revisit the curriculums, but the program information they send out is simply a guideline for classroom instructors...
...least Rosenbaum took the AP test (actually, he took 16 of them). About one-third of students who proudly list AP courses on their transcripts never take the exams, which are optional. Many top universities, including Harvard and M.I.T., have tightened their terms for granting credit or advanced standing on the basis of AP scores. They recognize that an exam-oriented class taken by 10th- and 11th-graders, no matter how bright and hardworking, is generally not the equivalent of a rigorous college course. "If you're being told that this is a college course, you're being told things...
TIME Could it be that haulers are simply moving imported goods paid for by credit card, and the U.S. economy really isn't benefiting...
...choose between the classes of the concentration you’re in versus the one you may eventually hopefully get credit for?” she says...