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Linnea N. Meyer ’07, one of this fall’s Phi Beta Kappa inductees, offered words of hope yesterday for the first-years longing to be accepted into the prestigious national honor society. “My very first, and worst, grade at Harvard was a C-minus in a rhetoric course freshman year,” said Meyer, a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. “It was the lowest grade I’d ever gotten in my whole life, but it really motivated me.” Meyer was among...
...immigrants who came to America to complete their masters degrees. While Wang characterizes them as pretty hands-off, they encouraged her in to get a 4.0 in school and sent her to SAT prep, which she took as a part of her supplementary Chinese-language school in the eighth grade and then culminated in a Princeton Review course the summer before her junior year...
...have any assessments aligned to our standards prior to No Child Left Behind, so we we've had to build our tests from scratch," said Joe Lamson, communications director for the Montana Office of Public Instruction. Because 2006 was the first testing year that required assessments for every grade from third through eighth, Montana set a generous mid-January deadline to process its results. In 2005, only students in fourth, eighth and 10th were tested, so the state easily got its scores in by late August. "We wanted to give ourselves extra time this year...
...MAKING THE GRADE...
...many TFs, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) ratings published each year offer an important tool for self-evaluation of their teaching skills, and the Bok Center also uses the CUE guide marks to grade the TFs, Wilkinson said...