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...gap between spaces would destroy the program,” Hilby says...
...This year we have an extreme amount of depth,” Ruggiero says. “In my years here, there’s always been a wider gap in the team. I think there are a number of players who could step up and play on the first or second lines, and they’ll have the opportunity this year to prove themselves...
...Mass Ave., past Harvard Law School, under a sign for Lesley University, through glass doors labeled “1815,” beside a City Sports, Gap and Barnes and Noble, is the last thing in the world you’d expect to find: cheap but good Japanese food. The Porter Exchange houses a grocery, bakery, tea stand, ice cream shop and six small crowded restaurants. On a weekend afternoon, the place is jam-packed. Rather than wait in line for seating, claim the bench outside Barnes and Noble. Bring a couple friends and order takeout from multiple...
...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 to Jay Rosner, executive director of the Princeton Review Foundation...
When he compared ITED and CogAT scores by race, Lohman found something surprising to those outside his field: the gap between white and minority students was smaller on the reasoning test than on the achievement test. Whites did about the same on both exams, but the percentage of blacks who scored reasonably well (above the 70th percentile) was higher on the CogAT tests. Others have replicated such findings by comparing achievement and reasoning tests in earlier grades; one theory as to why minorities often score higher on the latter is that they attend poor schools that leave their potential untapped...