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...someone offered you $1,000 for getting a five on an Advanced Placement (AP) Exam, would you take it? We certainly would. And if you attend one of 25 low-performing high schools in New York City, now you can. This particular incentive is part of a larger program being implemented in New York City this year under the auspices of Roland Fryer, assistant professor of economics at Harvard. The idea behind the program is to “pay for performance” by monetarily rewarding students who do well on standardized tests. Despite concerns that the program undermines...
...weren't prepared for the overweening bureaucratic scrutiny the agency subjected us to. There were long, psychological exam-style questionnaires to fill out, strict contractual pledges to sign - and interrogations of the neighbors, whose names we had to submit as character references. When the agency finally delivered the dog - I'm withholding its name because it's still a minor, at least in human years - the agents insisted on staying for much of the afternoon to make sure we weren't going to make it mow the lawn or clean the bathrooms...
CONTEXT Research shows that the new technique is just as effective at spotting cancerous growths as the traditional scope exam. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine tested similar numbers of patients and found that the virtual exam detected 123 advanced polyps compared with 121 located by the conventional method...
USAGE With surveys indicating that only half of Americans 50 and older get colonoscopies as often as they should, doctors hope the less daunting--not to mention lower-priced--test will attract more adherents. But some unpleasantries remain: the exam, which uses a tiny tube to inflate the colon, still entails drinking oodles of laxatives...
...highest court in Massachusetts handed a Harvard medical student victory late Tuesday in her battle for extra break time to pump breast milk during a medial certification exam. The state Supreme Judicial Court’s decision came the night before Sophie C. Currier, an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School, began taking the test and ensured she would receive one hour of additional break time per day on top of the 45 minutes students typically have for the entire exam. Currier cannot graduate from the Medical School or begin her scheduled residency until she passes the eight-hour...