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Harvard put a little distance between itself and the rest of the ECAC with the sweep. Ivy League rules forbid a team from playing during exam period so it has played more games than the rest of the conference. The Engineers have three games in hand over Harvard, but the Crimson now has a six-point lead. It now is ahead of second-place Vermont by four points in the ECAC, but the Catamounts do have four games in hand...
Notes: Harvard's game next Saturday against Yale is technically in violation of Ivy League rules. Teams are not supposed to play during exam period, but the Athletic Department was not notified of the bumped up start of exams until after the schedule had been made, and Harvard could not convince anyone to switch games. If any Crimson player has an exam scheduled for Jan. 13, it will be administered to him on the road either by one of the coaches, media relations staff, or another university official brought to New Haven for explicitly that purpose....Sports Illustrated's recent...
...after a poor showing on a state exam landed Rosemont on Maryland's list of failing schools, a neighbor volunteered to help. Though Rosemont is still part of Baltimore's public school system, the school is now managed by Coppin State College, a public institution situated just down the street. The college does everything from hiring Rosemont's principal to wiring its classrooms to giving its students their annual immunizations. Result: last year more than 90% of Rosemont first-graders read at grade level or above. Says Frank Kober, a professor of education at Coppin State...
...special reports turned into an impromptu bar exam, a live speed-reading contest in which reporters jumped to conclusions, sometimes qualified and sometimes not. Most networks first seized on the majority opinion, which seemed to imply that Gore might pull off a new recount. Rather said flat-out, "What [the ruling] does not do is in effect deliver the presidency to George Bush...
They say the exam is biased, focuses on trivial and confusing questions, takes too much class time to administer and only widens the achievement gap between low- and high-income students...