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...said he wanted to be his own lawyer. Brinkema warned him of the consequences, including the fact that he would not have access to the mountain of classified material that his lawyers, who had got security clearances, would be able to use. She then ordered a mental-competency exam, which concluded that he was capable of making the decision, and granted his request...
...first blush, the changes seem healthy enough. But inevitably, some students will do better, and some worse, on the new test. Girls tend to outperform boys on writing exams, so their overall scores could benefit from the addition of the new writing section. Boys usually score higher on the math section, but the new exam will contain fewer of the abstract-reasoning items at which they often excel. The elimination of analogies may exacerbate the black-white SAT score gap, since the gap is somewhat smaller on the analogy section than on the test as a whole, according...
...historical sense, Caperton's ambitious agenda for the big test is appropriate: 77 years ago, the exam began life as a tool of social change. The most significant early champion of the SAT was Harvard president James Conant, who, Lemann writes, disliked achievement tests because "they favored rich boys whose parents could buy them top-flight high-school instruction." Conant helped the SAT grow into the behemoth it is today precisely because it was different...
Couric launched an extensive media campaign to increase public awareness about the signs and symptoms of colon cancer, as well as the colonoscopy screening process. She went so far as to personally undergo a colonoscopy exam on national television in an attempt to “demystify” the process and encourage viewers to get screened...
...says. “So when Paul Hoffman comes to talk about global warming, his students will come, so that they can earn some extra credit in his eyes and find out if he’s going to say something that they really ought to know for the exam on Friday. There certainly are speakers who appeal to students...