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...high school students in New York State, the Regents exams are a crucial rite of passage: doing well greatly improves their chances of getting into college. Last week thousands of students learned that much of their cramming would go to waste, when the New York Post splashed the answer sheet to the Regents chemistry exam across its front page. An angry state education commissioner, Thomas Sobol, postponed the test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: High School Exam Scam | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...Post claimed that thousands of bootleg copies of answers to various Regents exams were being sold for as much as $2,000 a copy. A reporter was able to obtain the chemistry answer sheet in 15 minutes by placing two telephone calls. This was not the first case of exam scam. A former yeshiva student was recently arrested for selling copies of tests last year. If convicted, he could be sentenced to twelve years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: High School Exam Scam | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

Unfortunately for Phillips, it wasn't exactly Miller Time yet. The commercial was filmed during exam period, and Phillips had four finals and a take-home...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: A Man of Many Talents | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...Having smaller classes, especially for the first year; working with professors and having individual work recognized rather than having everything depend on one exam at the end of the year; and receiving more feedback are improvements that all students would like," says Ferrell...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Sitting In and Speaking Out in a Search for Change | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...perspective, this Australian professor could observe what many of us often miss: that the student body, like the majority of Americans, is essentially anti-intellectual in nature. It's disheartening to watch what could be America's greatest collection of raw intellectual talent descend into choosing their courses by exam date and lecture time...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: What Education? | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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