Word: placement
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...victim without violating his federal civil rights. Snapped a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union: "The decision is nothing more than a pretext for discrimination." And in California, an initiative that could prohibit AIDS victims from attending or teaching school and working in restaurants was certified for placement on the November ballot. The measure was put forward by followers of the perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche...
Another change which hit the Summer School this year is the addition of Economics Department placement tests. Pihl said the tests are designed to weed students without any quantitative background from upperlevel economic courses...
Students took these tests during the past week and those who do not pass them must take a parallel methods course at night along with their chosen economics course. Pihl said close to half of the economics courses have been affected by the placement tests...
...work hours often left him little timefor studying. According to him, this and his poorpreparation for Harvard gave him countlessacademic headaches. Before coming to Harvard hehad dreamt of being a chemical engineer, but hechanged his plans after freshman year. He says hewas competing with students who had already takenadvanced placement math and science courses inhigh school--opportunities his school had notoffered...
Still other labor experts point to the doleful performance of the U.S. public education system as an area that badly needs shoring up. Says one job- placement executive in Atlanta: "There is a major gap between the business community and the schools. They need to produce a student who can get a first job." Money for improving education, however, is in short supply. As frustrations mount, the striking fact is that jobs in the U.S. are literally going to waste...