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Most university admissions officers are aware that college board Scholastic Aptitude Tests are not the only guide to probable academic success - but they are not sure just what other criteria prove that a student is worth a gamble...
...Comprehensive High School is a sequel to Conant's 1959 survey, The American High School Today, in which he found that only eight of the 55 high schools he had studied met his "minimum criteria" for acceptable quality. In a new survey of 2,024 schools, Conant reports that 40.3% now give courses in calculus, 49.5% teach the new physics, 92% offer remedial classes for lower-ability students, 99% offer music. Even more significant, about half of the schools have a 20-to-1 student-teacher ratio-a standard that Conant considers basic. On the other hand, he finds...
Johnson might have pointed out the specific advantages of regionalism--economies of scale and coordination of sector growth--in providing underdeveloped countries with transportation, communications, and other requirements for economic take-off. The President should also have realized that practical regionalism involves considerable political sacrifices to development criteria on the part of both Congress and recipient countries. Congress might have to help a somewhat unfriendly country if it were located in the middle of an optimum region for economic growth. And once regions were established, legislators could not halt aid to a specific country without hurting growth in several other...
...Kooros uses criteria regarding shape and markings to distinguish rough tools from ordinary bone scraps. She feeds the criteria to a computer, which measures how well the description of each bone meets these standards...
...Reducing the autonomy of local and state boards by establishing national criteria and priorities for induction...