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...credit, the College Board has taken its detractors seriously. The National Academy of Sciences report offered "really good criticism," says Trevor Packer, executive director of AP programs. In response, Packer says the company has sought funds from the National Science Foundation to improve its biology, physics and chemistry courses. A retooling of the U.S. History program is also under way. But those changes will fix only part of the problem. AP courses and exams are created by teams of university professors who periodically revisit the curriculums, but the program information they send out is simply a guideline for classroom instructors...
...mystery to the man. He's simply the first of the post-baby boom generation to get this close to Australia's top job. He hit his teens as Countdown began defining youth culture, as Gough Whitlam's Labor project was on the skids and as Kerry Packer busted apart the cricket and media establishments. Next came university - a two-hour commute - and, after hours, the throbbing, beery era of Sydney's pub rock: Midnight Oil, INXS, the Angels, the Radiators. Latham and his cohorts first faced the job market in the prolonged recession of the early 1980s...
...others, protesting was their only political outlet. “I think that one of the most important things is I am not 18,” said Molly Birnbaum, 17, a senior at the Packer School in Brooklyn Heights. “This is the only way I have my say. This is my vote...
...others, protesting was their only political outlet. “I think that one of the most important things is I am not 18,” said Molly Birnbaum, 17, a senior at the Packer School in Brooklyn Heights. “This is the only way I have my say. This is my vote...
Still, many conservationists remain wary of trophy hunting in any shape or form. It works only with strict enforcement, says ecologist Craig Packer, who led the Minnesota study. "The temptation is to raise quotas to unsustainable levels because of the profit motive...