Word: excellence
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...Jackson (he was ordained as a Baptist minister). His style is a combination of razzle-dazzle and Southern revival meeting. But the message is a very basic version of the old Protestant work ethic: work hard and aim high. In corridors where punks push dope, Jackson pushes hope. Project EXCEL, a tough self-help regimen for students and parents alike, which reached 21 schools in Chicago, Los Angeles and Kansas City during this past school year, is turning the old ghetto battle cry of "Burn, baby, burn!" into "Work, brother, work...
...critics. Some charge that Jackson's grandstanding is all that EXCEL has, at least as a "program." In Chicago, EXCEL's national headquarters, the program employs only two staffers and several secretaries. There are four staffers in Kansas City and two in Los Angeles, where EXCEL faces extinction as a result of Proposition 13. Many black community leaders feel that Jackson is making things too easy for whites by putting unfair responsibility on the deprived for their deprivation. Jackson's response: "Slave masters never freely give up their power. The slaves have to rise up and cast...
John P. Smith, media director for ETS, said last week the purpose of the change in the LSATs was "to give the better students a chance to excel, by sprinkling rougher questions throughout the upper range of the LSATs." Before ETS altered the test, Lydon explains, "there was a lumping of people scoring in the upper-600s, and an extreme drop in the over-700 scores. What they did was to add more difficult questions, in order to make the scoring curve more like a normal bell-curve distribution...
...Brill says. "But the people like me--people who are strong in math and who do well on standardized tests to begin with--they only do better." If Brill is correct, it appears that the change in the LSATs does not necessarily allow the more able potential lawyers to excel, but rather merely extends the advantage enjoyed by those more proficient at math and at test-taking. Peter Liacouras, dean of Temple University's law school, told a Wall Street Journal reporter in February that the LSATs, even before the changes, failed to measure "common sense, motivation, judgement, idealism, client...
...effect of the terrorism in Italy, says Bonfante, is that fear has paralyzed the instinct of Italians to excel in something and thereby catch the public eye. Anything they might do that attracted publicity could also attract a terrorist...