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...80GB iPod ($349) is up to 6.5 hours, guaranteeing the playback of one or two, if not three full-length features. That also means 20 hours of music. The 30GB iPod ($249) has shorter battery life-3.5 hours of video or 14 hours of music-but it manages to outperform its predecessor while being 30% thinner...
...story did make some predictions that turned out to be right. For instance, the new test favors girls more than the old one did. It is a long-standing tenet of testmaking that girls outperform boys on writing exams. For reasons I am not foolish enough to speculate about in print, girls are better than boys at fixing grammar and constructing essays, so the addition of a third SAT section, on writing, was almost certain to shrink the male-female score gap. It did. Girls trounced boys on the new writing section, 502 to 491. Boys still outscored girls overall...
...story did make some predictions that turned out right. For instance, the new test favors girls more than the old test did. It is a long-standing tenet of testmaking that girls outperform boys on writing exams. For reasons I am not foolish enough to speculate about in print, girls are better than boys at fixing grammar and constructing essays, so the addition of a third SAT section, on writing, was almost certain to shrink the male-female score gap. It did. Girls trounced boys on the new writing section, 502 to 491. Boys still outscored girls overall, thanks largely...
...Teachers in many of the nations that outperform the U.S. on student achievement tests--such as Japan, Denmark and the Czech Republic--tend to assign less homework than American teachers, but instructors in low-scoring countries like Greece, Thailand and Iran tend to pile...
...from 1995 that controlled for differences in race, field of study, and SAT scores, the data shows that in the Ivy League academic setting, male high profile athletic recruits significantly underperformed compared to lower profile male recruits and female recruits. In some women’s sports, athletes even outperform their non-athletic peers academically. While there are many high profile male athletes who are as smart and qualified as their non-athlete peers, you can get away with being grossly under qualified for college if you play a high profile sport...