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...teaching SAT strategies to the denizens of Park Avenue. But is tutoring miniature millionaires with drug addictions easy? Well yes, it actually is. As Mr. Thayer, the father of Noah’s two students puts it, “All you do is teach seventh-grade math to eleventh-graders...You’re paid to be friends with my children and photocopy words out of the dictionary...
While spitting out lists of SAT words and math tricks is easy as pi for Noah, cultivating relationships with his students is more difficult. For Dylan and Tuscany, being popular is as easy as stealing prescription drugs from their stereotypically absent and aloof mother, Dr. Thayer. “In Dylan’s case coolness is an end in itself. But in Noah’s case, coolness means financial solvency.” The better he is ranked by his students, the more Noah is paid by his agency...
...percent of CRLS 10th graders received “failing” or “needs improvement” grades on the English exam—worse than the 31 percent rate statewide. And 38 percent of 10th graders at the school received such marks on the math exam—compared to 33 percent of students across Massachusetts.The district will resume its national search for a permanent replacement later in the school year. Saheed, who has never served as an assistant principal or principal for a school before, will remain in the running. “Every principal...
...report’s requirement that students take a course in “Analytical Reasoning” can’t be satisfied by a straight mathematics class—a distinction that means even math concentrators would have to take a course teaching them how to apply statistics or game theory to real-life situations...
...Arab leaders, including Abbas, have suffered acutely from the Bush Administration's Middle East policy, with their influence at home and abroad declining in the face of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and its backing for Israel's actions in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon. The simple math of Middle East politics today is that the there's an inverse proportionality between the closeness of Arab leaders to the United States and their distance from public opinion in their own countries. That much was clear when some Arab officials pointedly criticized Hizballah for initiating the summer's hostilities with...