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...other hand, feel that their three-hour high school exit exam in reading, writing and math -- which for the first time will be required for a diploma this academic year -- has already had a salutary effect. "Students are taking it seriously and studying," says Robert Paskel, a state education monitor. One worry: that kids who do not pass will become discouraged and eventually drop out. "Holding students back, especially in the lower grades, doesn't help," says Bill Honig, state superintendent of public instruction in California...
Among the 23 recommendations made by the Yalecommittee are the establishment of a visitingminority professor program to provide "mentors"for potential minority academics and the creationof a standing committee to monitor departments'affirmative action efforts. The proposals must beapproved by Yale University President Benno C.Schmidt before they can be formally adopted...
...apparent reaction to criticism fromcommunity members about a closed decision-makingprocess, B.U. and the school committee formed anoversight committee this summer to monitor B.U.'smanagement and to report to the state Board ofEducation...
...profit -- about $4.7 million in 1988 -- on sales of cattle, corn, sugar beets, wheat and other products. Yet mismanagement limits its progress. Dull cites as one example a "specialist system," requiring that people be trained to do only one specific task. Party officials, often without agricultural expertise, constantly monitor to make sure things are done as the party dictates. "Soviet farmers are accustomed to having Big Brother watching over their shoulder," says Dull. "So they try hard to make a field look nice on the surface. The result is that tillages may be done twelve times instead of once...
After a long and often bitter battle between animal rights activists and Cambridge's vast scientific and research community, the city council this summer passed a ground-breaking ordinance to monitor the care of laboratory animals...