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Mary Levinson, the candidate's mother and self-proclaimed "greatest ally," boasts of her son's platform, which features the government-sponsored placement of 300,000 men and women onto clipper ships, and a guarantee of jobs, housing and food...
...what's the problem? For one thing, there is a gap in scores on standardized tests, especially in math and science, which the report blames partly on lingering bias in both testing and curriculum. On Advanced Placement tests, which enable students to earn college credit during high school, boys outperform girls in math, physics and biology. On the SAT test, that ubiquitous measure of alleged merit, in 1991 boys beat girls by 8 points in the verbal score and 44 points in math...
...Within the next few years they are going to change the high school [Advanced Placement] exams to incorporate these changes," she says...
Sources have said that the writedowns in private placement investments amounted to approximately $200 million...
...Glenshaw said he makes "no predictions" about the success rate of the new system. He added that he did not know if the 80 percent placement rate was a record high because no one had collected that kind of data before...