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...University of New York, well known for its mission to educate all comers, there are no plans to cut back open admissions, even though remediation costs $33 million annually. All incoming freshmen must take an achievement test in reading ability and a specially developed freshman assessment test to determine placement, not admission. Half of C.U.N.Y.'S students require special help, and remedial courses are not for credit. Says Marie Jean Lederman, a former English professor who now directs the freshman skills assessment program: "It would be a great shame, given the inequality of our educational system...
...third--typify the laissez-faire approach that lets the play, through a remarkably strong and consistent group of actors, do the talking. Interpretation and polish have been concentrated, where they belong, in the difficult timing of conversations in which characters constantly interrupt one another and in the placement of peaks of hysteria in a steady crescendo of tension that could have deteriorated into a two-and-a-half hour endurance contest of lung power...
...junior was the only racquetman extended to five games yesterday, as he abandoned the Harvard creed of patterns and placement to hold a bang session with Midshipman Tim Tinney and struggle...
...officials set individual deadlines for attempting the test based on math placement and achievement test scores and have sent letters of warning to the approximately 300 students who failed to meet their deadlines...
...offers an international placement service and numerous programs including a federally-funded juvenile justice program through which law students teach primary and secondary school students about...