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...their children the best opportunities sink to Ms. Chapman’s level, many do spend significant time and money to improve their children’s standardized test scores. Their reasoning is perfectly understandable. Parents want to provide the best for their children—and children who excel in standardized tests often receive a stamp of academic excellence leading to the finest opportunities...
...education system does not change, parents must adjust their attitudes towards standardized tests. The money and time they spend on test preparations could more effectively be used in providing children with valuable experiences and priceless parental interaction. It’s deplorable if the children of the future only excel in penciling in bubble sheets...
...What Kelly had in common with the Kennedys (and not with Clooney) was a compulsion to excel, to write his own history, even if it meant rewriting others?. Turning "On the Town" into a movie, he and his team threw out most of Leonard Bernstein?s Broadway score. More daring was Kelly?s decision to restage the Jerome Robbins ballet that is at the heart of (and was the inspiration for) the original show. Darn it, he?d do his own darn ballet. Similarly, he honored and caricatured the great gallery of Impressionist paintings in the ballet for "An American...
...It’ll discourage people from trying out things they might not excel at,” said Ben P. Erickson...
...additional effort may only bring it up to a B-plus. Instructors must feel comfortable awarding grades in the B and C ranges if grades are to have any precision in their feedback. Harvard students are extremely talented and adept in many subjects, but not every student can excel in every area. There is significant variation in their quality of work, more than instructors can accurately reflect with only four grades...