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Athletics is the one pursuit where general mediocrity will gain you admission here. Harvard accepts nothing less than the best from students who try to gain admission based primarily on their achievement in math, for example. And math concentrators here are likely better than any other comparable group in the country. Football players here, however, are likely bested by at least 100 comparable groups in their primary raison d’entrance. Sports are the only endeavor on all of campus where our students pale in comparison to the best of the nation...
...math is ugly. Israeli soldiers have endured 13 roadside bombs, 140 shootings and 920 grenades here in the past four months alone. In the Palestinian town, the toll of the intifadeh stands at 84 dead, 1,160 wounded and 240 homes demolished. Yet Rafah's devastation goes largely unnoticed. Because the town lies beyond a series of time-consuming and often dangerous Israeli checkpoints, few Jerusalem-based foreign correspondents or even Palestinian reporters working out of Gaza City get to Rafah. In Rafah, dead men and destroyed homes are mere footnotes to news roundups...
...GENDER GAP Researchers at UNC Chapel Hill who set out to discover why boys do better in math than girls were surprised to find that the gender gap doesn't add up. Previous studies had concentrated on small groups of gifted teenagers, but the UNC study looked at a broader sample of students. Among the findings were that girls had higher average scores than boys until about age 11 and higher reasoning scores from 11 to 13. While boys do show a faster acceleration in math skills as they get older, the largest difference between boys and girls was late...
...credits of $89 billion over 10 years to subsidize up to 90 percent of the health insurance of lower- and middle-income Americans; restoring the eligibility of legal immigrants to food stamps; providing a $1 billion increase in education to help low-income students meet rigorous new reading and math standards. At the same time, corporate subsidies such as loan guarantees for wealthy shipbuilders and steel manufacturers are reduced or eliminated throughout the budget...
Moreover, by introducing such overt competition, curves discourage students from taking intellectual risks. If all students do extraordinary, innovative and original work, they all deserve As. Math 55 is often cited by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 as an example of why a curve makes no sense. Most students in that class have competed in math competitions at the international level and have extensive college-level math experience. By any standards, nearly all produce “exceptional” work, and many justly receive...