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College Board vice president Chiara Coletti says the board has received "far more positive than negative" responses to the new test. But she adds that most people are just beginning to understand what will appear on it. Once they do, a much richer, knottier conversation about the New SAT will probably begin. For decades, the purpose of the test has been to try to measure students' general-reasoning abilities, not their specific knowledge of algebra or the extent to which they have written practice essays. Caperton's feat is actually twofold: not only has he begun to shape...
...everything from anthrax to the Unabomber, ended last week with Helder's arrest on an empty stretch of Nevada interstate highway. By turning on the cell phone in his car and dispatching a series of letters to his family and a student newspaper, Helder had ensured his arrest. The knottier problem is divining his motives. Far from fitting the usual profile of an angry loner, the smiling young suspect in the Kurt Cobain T shirt was an easygoing student of art and industrial design at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie and the product of rural Pine Island, Minn...
...easy one: Extend the current moratorium that bars taxes on Internet access and prohibits taxes that single out the Internet. The knottier issue, though, is of sales tax. Say you live in New York and order a book online from Amazon.com (based in Washington state). Technically, you owe New York sales taxes. And states like New York - not to mention the brick-and-mortar stores in them, who complain that Internet outfits are being granted unfairly tax-free status - are looking for permission to start collecting...
Human representatives will still be available for knottier questions, Schnare said...
...Even knottier is the question of whether school districts should be made more liable than they are in state courts, where rulings tend to spark change only in the offending district. A 1993 survey by the American Association of University Women found that 30% of girls and nearly 20% of boys are harassed often, leading Davis advocates to argue that the problem is systemic and needs the widespread changes likely to follow a federal precedent...