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Research on another alternative exam, this one written by Robert Sternberg, a psychologist at Yale, asks students to perform tasks reflecting their creativity and practicality. In one section, students write the caption for a cartoon or design the logo for a company. In another, they are asked how they would handle requesting a letter of recommendation from a teacher or sharing rent payments on an apartment. The test, which will be given to 1,400 students this spring, is being paid for by the College Board, the people behind the SAT. Even they realize, it seems, that some folks...
...with the tortuous theories experts have concocted to explain why our kids' scores are the lowest of any racial group as I am with the bigots who claim that proves they can't ever measure up. There's simply no excuse for black youngsters with college-educated parents to perform worse than white youths whose folks only finished high school. The only way to silence the critics is to close the black achievement gap, not to throw out the test because we're embarrassed by the results...
...Medicare rate for a mammogram stands at about $69, yet the cost incurred by the imaging centers can run anywhere from $100 to $150. "We're basically operating a charity," says Dr. Mark Dennis, a radiologist at the Sally Jobe Breast Center in Englewood, Colo., whose six clinics performed more than 50,000 mammograms last year and reportedly lost $120,000, most of it on mammograms. "We can afford to keep our doors open only because our mammography sites perform other types of services as well...
Doula is a Greek word that means "woman servant." Unlike midwives, who deliver babies and are licensed to perform medical tasks, labor doulas provide emotional and physical support to the laboring parents. "I do everything from getting wet cloths for a mother's forehead to relaxation exercises to massage," says Guralnick...
...nurse in every school was implemented. "When a child skips class or misbehaves, there's usually a lot more to it than meets the eye," says Krapac. "Maybe that child is avoiding a bully, for example. Nurses are in a position to notice those things." Krapac and her staff perform many tasks school nurses would never have considered their responsibility just five years ago--haggling with health insurers, counseling kids with mental illness, transporting children to dental appointments and even teaching them basic skills like hand washing...