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Using data from Chicago’s public schools, they correlated unusual patterns of answers within a single classroom, as well as unusually high scores in specific classrooms, with a high likelihood of teacher cheating...
...rites of public mourning for those whose deaths would otherwise go unmarked. It is difficult to communicate the degree of danger to which trans and gender-variant people are subject every day. The average person stands a one in 18,000 chance of being murdered; for trans people, the likelihood...
...Perhaps a more specific subject line would have increased the likelihood that those interested in this ‘amazing opportunity’ would read the message and that those who found the prospect ‘gross’ would delete it,” Sarah G. Dawson ’04 said...
...rankings requires raising a school’s average SAT scores, lowering its acceptance rate and increasing its yields (the ratio of those who are admitted versus those who finally attend). To do that, some admissions offices pad their incoming classes with high scorers and early admits, whose higher likelihood of attendance pushes acceptance rates down and yield up, says Amherst’s Parker, an outspoken critic on this issue...
...WILL YOU DO THAT, GIVEN THE LIKELIHOOD OF FUTURE TAX CUTS? No decision has been made on future tax cuts. And that's the President's decision. But reducing the deficit comes from two things. One is the larger tax revenues we'll see as the economy kicks into higher gear. The other is controlling spending. The President has been firm on that: he wants spending tightly controlled...