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After all, the President's proposal to develop voluntary fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math tests by 1999 has enjoyed public support since its unveiling last February. Education experts agree that American public schools badly need tougher--and higher--national standards. National testing would enable parents and schools from Cambridge, Mass., to Compton, Calif., to measure an individual student's performance against a common yardstick. A well-executed national testing system might also ease the transition to charter schooling and public-school choice by providing a standard method of assessing different schools' strengths. In a TIME/CNN poll last week...
...first-year Q & A session. These questions were passed to him in his current hideout in an air duct in the basement of Wigglesworth H. He has been in this duct since 1989, living on a 10-year supply of Dining Services granola while waiting for a bad midterm grade to "blow over." The Campus Commando stresses that you tell no one where he is hiding, but greatly appreciated the company, as he has been amusing himself for the last three months by playing Contra inside his own head...
...Course Least Likely to Help You at a Final Club Award: to John Huehnergard's "Aramaic B: Targumic Aramaic," which promises "basic grammar of the Targum Onqelos." Whatever-as if we didn't learn all that crap in first grade...
...checked or circled or highlighted classes that might make the grade this fall...
...surprise to many industry watchers. "The great myth here is that this was all about HDTV," says Hundt. "HDTV has been a fraud by the broadcasters all these years." Indeed, broadcasters claim that in the frequency consumed by a single HDTV transmission, they can "multicast" several channels of lower-grade digital pictures, which, to the average couch potato, are indistinguishable from the real thing. "The technology is getting so good that we can contemplate multiple channels without any difference in picture quality that the consumer is going to see," Padden told TIME. The other networks are also hinting that their...