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...Expository Writing Office will soon require students who fail a Freshmen Week placement test to take a full year of writing classes...
...addition to selection through the placement test, students will be able to volunteer for admission to the class, Flug said. They will receive a letter describing the remedial program during the summer...
...minds. Opposition to programs like CTY is not the same as opposition to programs geared at academically students or standardized testing in general. Opponents worried about inappropriate academic acceleration that inevitably results when pushy parents, precocious children, and higher learning institutions join forces. Fortunately, with the mushrooming of advanced placement programs nationwide and increasing research on how to deal with gifted youngsters, the myth of the neglected gifted student is more fiction that fact. And though public education, particularly in inner city schools, has fallen victim to President Reagan's band-aid educational policies, magnet schools and other specialized programs...
...that will successfully motivate and challenge students at the junior high and high school levels. If Johns Hopkins and other institutions of higher learning like Harvard are truly interested in fostering excellence, they must appropriate their funds where they will do the most good. Specifically, universities must help advanced placement programs in rural, oft neglected regions of the country where many gifted students go unnoticed, and bolster the quality and quality of offerings in those schools that already have solid programs...
...placement of more middle-income and working tenants in public housing projects. Welfare families fear the change will push them out. But other public housing tenants welcome the prospect of more responsible neighbors. "When you work for your money and you pay your own rent, you appreciate things more," contends Martha Henry, who has lived for 30 years in Manhattan's Dyckman project...