Word: meritable
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...They can't be very helpful in academic jobs," she says, noting the merit system's reliability. "In theory nobody can call a department and say, 'Have I got a student for you, and here's my $10,000 donation to the department...
Lisa Ngai, a senior at Ferndale High School near Bellingham, Wash., aims to be the first from her immigrant family to go to college. In the past three years she has taken the SAT I three times, the PSAT (which determines National Merit Scholars) twice, SAT II exams in math, writing and U.S. history and, for good measure, the College Board's Advanced Placement calculus exam. This year she is enrolled in three more AP classes. By the time she graduates, she will have paid nearly $500 for tests sponsored by the College Board and designed by the Educational Testing...
...unclear how the social club might structure the content of a merit based comp, the type the College permits...
...their part, the Supreme Court Justices were not interested in offering comment - they simply dismissed the challenge without writing an opinion or a dissent. That kind of dismissal means the Justices did not reject the case because it lacked merit, but rather because they wanted to defer to the lower court's ruling...
...books and computers. It also puts pressure on principals to account for their schools' performance, gives local officials more control, requires that all children be able to read by the third grade and prescribes regular reading and math testing for students. For teachers whose students excel, there is a merit pay clause...