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...also important because it is, sadly, the only requirement for admission on which applicants cannot misrepresent themselves. Many students cheat their way through high school, list clubs on their applications to which they never belonged and hire others to write their college essays. However, with the rare exception of a few football players, no one cheats on the SATs. The California Board of Regents surely understands that applicants would become even more indistinguishable from each other than they already are without the SAT. In fact, turning the college admissions process into a crap shoot is probably part of their rationale...
...school should work: teams of teachers helping students learn by themselves, a thematic curriculum, extended days, classes without bells, a three-year relationship between the students and their advisers. At the time, Griffin was working for a school that spurned her ideas. But in April 1995 she was hired to take over Olson, a 30-year-old building on Minneapolis' north side that was being converted from an elementary school into a middle school. Because it was a start-up, Griffin was able to hire without regard to seniority. "If you want high expectations for students," she now says...
...delivering the Orchard Hills school over to what has come to be called the Edison Project, Vaughn took a wager that only two other school districts in the country were prepared to risk at the time: he recommended that his board sign a contract permitting Edison to hire its own principal and teachers, manage its own budget and teach its own curriculum. In exchange the district would pay Edison about $3,600 a child, roughly the same amount it spends on its other 48,000 students. If Edison educated the children for less money, it could pocket the difference...
...could be Bunker Hill II for the Cheyenne-Arapaho vs. NATHAN LANDOW, Democratic moneyman and AL GORE adviser. Early this year he allegedly threatened to blackball the impoverished Oklahoma tribes with the Clinton Administration if they didn't hire him to help try to reclaim some 7,500 acres of land that was under the control of the Agriculture Department. Tribal representatives met with Landow after ponying up $107,000 to the Democrats in 1996 for a chance to make their plea to Clinton, but they saw no action on their land. Landow wanted...
...puzzled about the qualities and characteristics an employer seeks, put yourself in his or her shoes for a moment and imagine what kind of person they would like to hire. When reviewing your resume and thinking about your past, focus on experiences that demonstrate flexibility, adaptability, progress, achievement, creativity, initiative, leadership, and responsibility. These are general traits that most employers seek in the people they hire. Your examples can come from many different experiences--academic, athletic, artistic, travel, community service, and work...