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...teaching to the test," says John Moore, chairman of the education department at San Antonio's Trinity University. Some South Carolinians, on the other hand, feel that their three-hour high school exit exam in reading, writing and math -- which for the first time will be required for a diploma this academic year -- has already had a salutary effect. "Students are taking it seriously and studying," says Robert Paskel, a state education monitor. One worry: that kids who do not pass will become discouraged and eventually drop out. "Holding students back, especially in the lower grades, doesn't help," says...
WHAT can students expect? We were never promised democracy by Harvard, only a great name on the diploma and a good education if we wanted to work for it. If that's the case, then I paid them my tuition and they can work with that. But that isn't how it should be. Alumni should give money and they should have a voice...
Harvard can never jail me for arguing my opinion, nor do they have to accept it, although I doubt they will ever refuse my money. But when I receive my diploma, I will have a responsibility to give both to them, and maybe then they will listen...
...addition to a monetary prize, Alexiades will take home a unique Latin diploma along with her normal one at Commencement Thursday...
...also thinks that Archbishop Tutu should stop complaining and give back his diploma. "The guy really gets on my nerves," he says. "Mail it back tomorrow. I'll pay for the postage...