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...essay will be compared to the students’ freshman fall writing placement exam in order to analyze their progress...
Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake said that the University expects about 300 seniors to take the CLA exam and between 200 and 300 undergraduates in each of the other classes to participate in the writing test. He said the initiative will be funded by the president’s office...
...little hard for us to buy, son. In fact, your older sister took that same class when she was a freshman. She ended up getting an A- even though she had missed much of the semester while recovering from knee surgery, and had to take the final exam with an acute case of laryngitis that prevented her from be able to even read the questions, forcing her to guess what they were and make up her own answers.” They also didn’t believe my story that “Junior Parents Weekend?...
...HOMESCHOOLERS AND THE NEXT FRONTIERWhile Norberg’s unconventional upbringing presented hardships in the classroom, it helped foster the individuality that friends say defines him. His friends say the true “Stephen Norberg” is the person writing his final exam essay in crayon or doing the butterfly in a speedo in three feet of snow, they say. They estimate 60 percent of his college diet consisted of root beer and cookie dough and 75 percent of his wardrobe is made up of flip-flops and Hawaiian shirts. But how much of this is homeschooling responsible...
...said, “I’m totally okay with Wikipedia.” But not everyone is singing Wikipedia’s praises. Earlier this month, Middlebury College’s history department banned the use of Wikipedia as a source for papers and exams after a number of students referenced the same inaccurate Wikipedia article in an exam. “Wikipedia is good for providing overviews of noncontroversial and broad topics, but not good for news, commentary, or anything with polarized opinions,” wrote Harvard teaching fellow Abdur-Rahim Syed in an e-mail...