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...teacher's pet makes it satisfying to catch a smarty pants like Gore in an error, while it's no fun to go after the class cutup. This is not meant to excuse Gore's earlier performance in Boston or withhold credit from Bush for passing an exam on world affairs. But had the standard of accuracy operating in the first debate been applied in the second, Bush would not have fared as well. For instance, Bush said we should pull our troops out of Haiti, but there are not a lot of troops in Haiti--a scant 34 soldiers...
...people who passed the exam had their name read out and the rest were told they could leave," Knobler said. "The coordinators consoled them by saying, 'If you didn't get called, you can tell everyone you missed by just one question...
...midnight snacks program in the dining halls during exam and reading periods brought students out of their rooms several times a week and down into the dining hall to chat while grabbing snacks and getting a needed break from cramming, and students chatted or studied with the housemates and friends they might have missed at meals. Hopefully the new late night snack provided by Harvard Dining Services will continue to have this effect throughout the year...
...against standards, but it's always been about the tests themselves," says Monty Neill of FairTest, an advocacy group in Cambridge, Mass. Indeed, when the Public Agenda survey asked parents specifically about whether it's wrong for a child's grade promotion or graduation to hinge on just one exam, 78% concurred...
...reading list is heavy, however--almost 300 pages per week-and several papers and a final exam as well...