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...authors, Kennedy School Assistant Professor of Public Policy Brian A. Jacob and University of Chicago Professor Steven D. Levitt, concluded that local policies attributing more weight to standardized testing made it more likely that teachers would cheat...
...isolating instances of cheating, we looked for suspicious or unusual test score patterns in an answer key,” Jacob said...
...Jacob said he hoped the study would lead to changes in the current standardized testing system...
...Where the women are hot and the beer is cheap,” adds Jacob H. Welch ’06, also from Georgia. “You don’t see many camouflage hats up here,” he says nostalgically. Brother Jimmy’s, the new restaurant and bar that has planted its cowboy boots in the former stomping ground of the House of Blues, is making Click, Welch and other members of Harvard’s newly founded Southern Society more than a little homesick...
...Jacob Singer (Robbins) endures constant nightmares about a crucial fight in Vietnam when his unit was fiercely attacked by a Vietnamese unit. Or was it? His confusion is magnified by the demons who keep appearing, cameo appearances that culminate in the apparent rape of his girlfriend. And amazingly enough, it just goes downhill from there. Although the ending is hinted at throughout, its flimsy spirituality distracts from the film’s strength: relentless urban horror that makes the Book of Job look like...