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Dunster House Committee co-chair Colin B. Jackson ’06 said he hoped for some changes to the construction plans, such as prohibiting construction during reading and exam periods...
...retirement trend has been accelerated in some part by recent efforts to upgrade qualifications. This spring, for example, Arkansas imposed a very unpopular competency test on all its teachers. And though results released last month showed that only 10% had flunked various sections of the exam, one union official said the test had a "devastating effect" on morale. Apparently so. Early retirements in Arkansas have shot up close to 33%. Teachers in other states may soon be following them. Eighteen states now require competency tests, and two weeks ago the N.E.A. voted to support such exams for all new teachers...
...didn't you do it [the full exam] last year? A. Well, I think this is what has been misplayed somewhat. We knew at the time that there were two small polyps and they had got one, and we set a time later when I would go back in. And there was talk of the concern about blood. That was all dismissed because I took the further tests and examinations on that and there never was another trace. I'm a little embarrassed talking boldly about all of these plumbing secrets and everything. But I think I had an explanation...
...question was a snap: "State and compare the laws of mass energy and momentum conservation in Newtonian and relativistic mechanics . . ." At least it was a snap for Ruth Lawrence, who scribbled the answers to this and 80 other mind bogglers in a four-week Oxford University exam "as if taking dictation," in the words of an awed fellow student. When the marathon test ended, Lawrence had finished first in a field of 192. The average student struggles through just 31 such questions. Lawrence's feat was remarkable for anyone, but all the more so for her, since she is only...
...questions also indicate that the committee may potentially consider shifting the length of orientation week, as well as changing placement exam schedules for incoming students...