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...strong dose of reality. More than 50% of students entering college in the U.S. require remedial course work once on campus. Two years ago, the California State University system launched the Early Assessment Program (EAP), which encourages 11th-graders to take a test to gauge their college readiness in English and math. Some juniors who expect to coast to college find out they will have to work even harder their senior year to improve the skills they will need to thrive in a Cal State school. Other students who had not considered themselves college material discover that they are better...
...your excellent article on her majesty, "A Woman's Work Is Never Done," you quoted a man saying about Elizabeth's position, "Helluva job she's got. I wouldn't want it." That reminds me of the retort an old northern English countryman made about the job: "I never saw it advertised." John McLeod Saskatoon, Canada...
...known principally for her choppy romance with Jude Law, Miller is actually more of an organic-cotton blond, and the film is weighty material. Interview is one of three movies by Dutch director Theo van Gogh, who was murdered by Muslim extremists in 2004, that are being remade in English. Buscemi, who's directing, tried to shoot as Van Gogh did, in just nine days. He also plays a grizzled war reporter who resents having to interview an actress. "They end up having some intimate, father-daughtery, lovery moments," says Miller. Lovery? With Miller? Buscemi must have had to work...
TIME I've read that you started learning English at 16. Now, as a member of two technology-related presidential advisory panels, what should the government do to get kids excited about science...
...College also touched on an issue that sparked controversy at Tuesday’s meeting of the full Faculty, which saw three professors criticize the current system of student course evaluations administered by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE). At the meeting, Philip J. Fisher, the Reid professor of English and American literature, said he “learned nothing” from the online evaluations he received last fall...