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...Reported by Anthee Carassava/Highampton, Bruce Crumley/ Paris, Helen Gibson/ London, James Graff and Joe Kirwin/Brussels and Jane Walker/Madrid
Officials at the FAA defend the idea and execution of the audits and claim safety has been enhanced by reviewing just how the system stays safe. In her first comments on the process, FAA head Jane Garvey explained, "The end result of these audits is stronger airline programs. These safety audits focused the FAA and the airlines on how to raise the safety bar even higher than it is." Sources at the agency admit the process has been tense and the FAA has been forced to rethink how it goes forward...
...conducted an informal study of the SAT's role in its admissions. It showed that the scores bore little relation to how well the students performed once they were on campus. A second analysis found that the SAT accounted at most for just 10% of each admissions decision. Says Jane Brown, the school's vice president for enrollment and college relations: "We concluded that the SAT was just a blunt instrument which doesn't help us cut to the core of who a student...
Mount Holyoke has high hopes that its future applicants will devote the hours they once spent fretting over word analogies to worthier pursuits like community service or starring in school plays. Best of all, says Jane Brown, "we also think we'll see high-scoring students who don't submit scores simply on principle." Lis Bernhardt, a senior at Fairfield High School in Fairfield, Conn., was concerned more with pragmatism than principle. She spent months "consumed" by the SATs, investing countless hours--and more than $1,000--in tutoring to lift her scores. Then she toured Mount Holyoke, loved...
Film star Jane Fonda has given $12.5 million to endow a Graduate School of Education (GSE) center to study how gender affects children's development and learning, GSE officials announced Friday...