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...improvement. He found the question generator very helpful in keeping his practice tailored toward his weaknesses. The one potential drawback? The lack of practice for the essay: “That might be the only setback that there is right now, because it’s harder to grade an essay than a multiple choice section with an obvious answer,” he says.Kendall adds that INeedAPencil.com also helped him with his college search. “From the Web site I see that my scores fit in the areas of applicants that applied to some college that...
...thrust into a daunting bear market, members of Harvard’s graduating class have doubtless pondered the ultimate meaning of their hard-earned diplomas. For 17-odd years in the classroom, success has been relatively easy to define: Good work is, in theory, awarded with good grades; the higher the grade, the more consummately the student has achieved her task. Quantified through its positioning in an alphabetical hierarchy, academic success is seemingly straightforward. Yet, once we depart from the academic bubble, the only quantitative measure available to translate the abstract concept of success into an intelligible form is money...
...encouraged by the tremendous involvement of our community in the effort,” he said. Cambridge schools—which has a 64 percent minority enrollment, far higher than the 30.1 percent minority enrollment Massachusetts-wide—has seen 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 10th grade scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System state evaluations increase, according to Martin, who attributed the jumps partly to the district’s increased emphasis on reading and literacy...
...tended to be higher, and student-teacher ratios lower, in rural areas compared to cities and suburbs. Like elsewhere in the United States, rural public education is failing its students, but perhaps less so. On the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading assessment, only a third of 12th-grade public-school students in rural areas scored at or above proficient, consistent with the national average. Rural dropout rates are higher than in the suburbs and lower than in cities.On one hand, the success of public education in any setting is largely the result of quantitative factors that influence schools...
...Complaints about the Core and the nascent General Education—its lack of common requirements or a coherent, unifying philosophy—are rehearsed often. And the demise of a potential Great Books track within Gen Ed called further attention to this problem. The prevalence of grade inflation and the existence of trendy but “soft” disciplines in the humanities and social sciences continue to portend trouble to those concerned with Harvard’s intellectual rigor...