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Penn was the Crimson’s first match of the spring season to be held outdoors. Harvard appreciated the fresh air, especially since outdoor play features a slower tempo, with longer points and greater difficulty controlling ball placement...
Taking the Detroit Catholic high school placement test on a lark (my engineer father has always recommended that I keep my options open), I won a partial scholarship to Detroit Catholic Central High School, which was far closer and had many more course offerings than the Lutheran high school I would otherwise have attended. (Catholic Central also had a powerhouse football program.) Though my pastor feared that going to a Catholic school would confuse my Lutheran mind, I enrolled...
...thought it would be nice to have up to three or four core exemptionson A.P. [Advanced Placement] scores,” Thede said. “I’d like to see a place for A.P. credit and I see the Core as the best place for that...
...have a suggestion. Why not let students self-select? This would minimize, if not eliminate, any anxiety or typecasting, but would also, if done properly, be a highly effective way of dividing students. Based on the results of the placement test, and perhaps a writing sample of the student’s choice, the Expos program could make an initial, non-compulsory recommendation of what level each student should be placed into. In the first weeks of class, students could get a sense of their section and what is going to be expected of them, and switch into higher...
...sort of system in place in the mathematics department for determining who takes Math 55, Math 25 and so on—and it seems to work extremely well. There is no reason why a modified version of the mathematics department’s combination of meetings, advising and placement tests would not be viable in placing students in different levels of Expos...