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Although your article concerning There and Back: Notes from Abroad was a wonderful introduction to student contributions toward internationalization, an important point was completely overlooked: The event you covered was a joint magazine debut and holiday open house co-sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Students Abroad (HRSA) and HR-NEAR (Network for Educational Alternatives and Readjustment...
...plus a movie studio to provide programs, for his high-risk start-up of the Fox TV network. They predicted a comeuppance when he lavished at least $600 million more on launching Sky, a satellite and cable TV service for Britain and Ireland that purveys movies, sports and 24-hr.-a-day news in competition with established broadcasters, including the government-funded...
...much for caution. In test-happy America, the SAT has since become a kind of academic icon and a national rite of passage for college-bound high school students. Every year more than 1.3 million of them take the 2-hr., 30-min. multiple-choice exam, which is intended to measure students' reasoning skills, math and verbal, as well as their readiness for college. High SAT scores -- perfection is 800 on each half of the exam -- have acquired the cachet of quality. Suburbs lure prospective home buyers by touting the SAT records of their high schools' graduates. Colleges boast...
...reading ability. He found that 172 college students correctly answered, on average, 38% of the multiple-choice comprehension questions without even reading the test selections. Many colleges, notably in the Midwest, are turning to the rival ACT exam, put out by the American College Testing Program. That 3-hr. battery of exams claims to measure student skills in four curriculum areas: English, reading, science reasoning and math...
Leaders(as of 5-22) Batting AVG Dykstra, Philadelphia .405 Alomar, San Diego .357 Dawson, Chicago .346 Sabo, Cincinnati .346 Home Runs HR Dawson, Chicago 13 Bonilla, Pittsburgh 11 HJohnson, New York 8 Mitchell, San Francisco 8 MaWilliams, San Francisco 8 Wallach, Montreal 8 Saves Saves Burke, Montreal 10 McDowell, Philadelphia 10 DaSmith, Houston 8 Franco, New York 8 MiWilliams, Chicago 8 Myers, Cincinnati...