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...Coming up with a fail-safe system is not easy. "A good question for me might be an inexplicable question for you," says Rabkin. "It's hard to find ones that are good for everybody." Security answers have to be obscure enough that they're unguessable, while still familiar enough to the user that they won't be forgotten. And they can't be information that is easily obtainable. "Who did you buy your house from?" used to be a great question used by some banks. Although real estate sales information is public, says Rabkin, "it used to be public...
...basic math and reading skills are left to slip through the cracks. Other proposed remedies for the education crisis—from charter schools to private school vouchers—merely skirt the systemic problems with public schooling and instead look to save a notable few students. By failing to provide access to all students, they fail to satisfy the ultimate goal of public education. Rather than move students to other schools, their current schools should be made better. And if fiscal incentives can effectively motivate teachers to increase student achievement, schools should utilize pay-for-performance systems...
...public school, private and magnet, charter and international. The SAT plays much too large a role in today’s admissions process for it to be eliminated entirely. The recent findings should serve as a springboard for further research and inquiry into reforming the SAT or, should that fail, replacing it with an entirely new test.Despite whatever inconvenience it entails, over 750 colleges and universities nationwide have moved to eliminate standardized test scores from consideration in their admission processes. For schools that have sufficient monetary resources and staff support to enable such an endeavor, evaluating each applicant...
...write an impassioned plea to a plethora of mailing lists exhorting Harvard undergraduates to consider cross-registration at MIT. I explain the simplicity and ease of cross-registration. I argue that the commute is trivial and that there are exciting courses in all manner of disciplines. But without fail, year after year, students decline to make the commitment, except for accounting...
Named after the Russian-born novelist who celebrated in her writings the risk-taking individual (and put the black hat on a snivelling, forgiving government that wouldn't let mediocre enterprises and their leaders fail), the center is a lonely beacon of small government and private enterprise in Washington at a time when big government appears to be on the comeback. Black-and-white photos of the controversial writer sit on desktops here; her many novels fill most of the bookshelves; in one office, a blowup of her postage-stamp image (something Rand probably would have abhorred -government embrace...