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...tests do provide benchmarks for basic proficiency, from which schools can evaluate their own performance. Merit pay systems may leave much to be desired, but they provide a notable avenue to address the failures of our current system, in which children who are several grade levels behind in basic math and reading skills are left to slip through the cracks. Other proposed remedies for the education crisis—from charter schools to private school vouchers—merely skirt the systemic problems with public schooling and instead look to save a notable few students. By failing to provide access...
...applicants, while casting a shadow onto those from less privileged backgrounds. The SAT at times seems almost directly proportional to the amount of money one’s parents make. Among test-takers in 2008, for instance, those whose family incomes were above $200,000 averaged 570 in SAT math, while students with family incomes below $20,000 had an average score of 456. A commission of prominent college admissions figures—headed by Harvard’s own dean of admissions and financial aid, William R. Fitzsimmons ’67—has finally challenged the status...
...Because the Apollo project catapulted the U.S. into a scientific leader," he says. Like America during the last space race, China could expect a space program would lead to job creation in high-tech fields, dual use technology that can have military applications and heightening interest among students in math and science fields. "The Chinese have read the Apollo playbook," says Johnson-Freese. "They understand everything the U.S. got from lunar program...
...Foster Wallace, 1997), scheming to save our threatened fisheries (lobsterman Ted Ames, 2005) and solving Fermat's Last Theorem (mathematician Andrew Wiles, 1997). Seven have nabbed the Nobel Prize, including geneticist Barbara McClintock (1981) and former U.S. poet laureate Joseph Brodsky (1981). Others have won Pulitzers, Fields Medals -the math world's top honor - and National Book Awards. The chosen few are informed by an "out-of-the-blue" phone call, which can prompt shrieks, stunned silence, and, in the case of one recipient about three years ago, an apparent fainting epidemic. One stubborn recipient put up a protracted fight...
...other hand, says Peter Morici, a professor of international business at the University of Maryland, finance concentrators - that is, the students who are specially trained to grasp the models - are so steeped in the particulars that they don't always see the forest for the trees. They get the math, but they don't pay attention to systemic issues within the broader economy; it's a by-product of degree programs that encourage students to take a narrow focus too early on in their studies. "In medicine you become a doctor first, and then you become a specialist," Morici says...