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Something was. As the state's 1,139 public schools opened their doors for a new year, they faced a new task. For the first time they will be asked to issue each student a health report card in the form of a body mass index, or BMI (see box). As lawmakers initially envisioned the plan when they passed the Biggs-sponsored bill in April, schools were to literally add a section to report cards--alongside the traditional assessments in reading, writing and 'rithmetic--for this measure of a child's body. At a time when schools are increasingly taking...
TIME: In a low-return world, by definition indexes will have low returns. Are index funds a bad choice...
MAIDMAN: There are so many ways to index now, including exchange-traded funds, where you can get very specific with what you own. So I don't think it's completely out with indexing. I do think there's an issue with traditional cap-weighted indexes like...
...Crawling (thatsbeijing.com) Called to the Bar Pulled from the pages of the expat monthly, this site has the most complete listings and cheeky reviews of Beijing's bars. The index is under the homepage's events directory, where you'll find descriptions of 179 drinking holes...
While McGrath Lewis noted that Harvard has always had an “exceptionally high yield” that “might have helped us in the past,” the change in methodology didn’t seem to hurt the College. Harvard’s index score increased 2 percentage points over last year...