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...reporter caught me while I was sitting in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church awaiting the joyous and celebratory graduation services of my daughter's grade school. "What do you feel about the verdicts?" Since I had met with Ken Lay in August 2001 to warn him of Enron's shady accounting and Lay for the most part ignored my warnings, the reporter wanted to know, "Do you feel vindicated?" My mood did not remain joyous or celebratory. I stammered something about being satisfied that justice prevailed. What I couldn't convey in words is a sense of sadness, sadness...
...when it was learned that some students in the course had brought already-completed answers to several of the questions on the exam. These accusations prompted the course head, Professor of Physics Mikhail D. Lukin, to make the final exam count less towards the students’ final grades. The exam in Physics 153, “Electrodynamics,” allowed students to use their course notes and textbooks. According to a student in the course, Elizabeth R. Shope ’09, a “rumor” circulated in the class that a small group...
...students chose five to complete. In an e-mail sent to the entire class after receiving complaints about the allegations, Lukin announced that he would take steps to address the issue. Reminding his students that the goal of the class was “learning and not getting good grades,” and calling the situation “unfortunate,” he announced that he would be adjusting the value of the final from 40 percent of the total course grade to 30 percent. “This is a high level class and I assumed that...
...parents are both away. It's actually her friend Callie's house, and they call their bedroom the hotel because it has twin beds side by side. Callie's mother Cecilia, whose husband is also in the gulf, offered to take Lauren in so she could finish eighth grade with the rest of her class, before going off to spend the summer with her grandparents in Colorado. There is no telling when Mom and Dad will be home, but this way Lauren at least gets to stay a little normal a little while longer. "I like sleeping over...
...Carolina, to get credit for improvements in individual student test scores, even if the students aren't yet passing the state exam. For example, a North Carolina school will now get credit if a student's scores improve from 40 to 65 (on a scale of 100) from third grade to fourth. Before this change, the school could get credit only if the entire segment of students - fourth-grade Hispanic students in math, for example - improved their scores. North Carolina estimates that about 40 of the 932 schools in the state that didn't show improvement in test scores under...