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The all-male U.S. contingent, ranging in age from 14 to 18, was selected in a rigorous elimination that began with the Annual High School Mathematics Exams, a multiple-choice test given to more than 420,000 students last March. The top 150 finishers then went on to the U.S.A...
Improvement is generally attributed to increased parental involvement and classroom attention to basic skills. But how real is the progress? Bearing such nicknames and acronyms as CAT, ITBS, CTBS and METRO,* a bewildering battery of tests annually churns out statistics in "percentiles," "grade levels" or "stanines" (a scoring system based...
E.N.A., located in St.Germain-des-Prés, is the newest of the most prestigious grandes écoles and currently the most influential. It was created by De Gaulle after World War II specifically to unite civil servants by providing them with a rigorous, state-supervised education, and to build...
In 1968 Uston read Beat the Dealer, a 1962 book by Mathematician Edward Thorp, the "father" of card counting. Uston, a statistics, mathematics and computer buff, was fascinated, and while still serving as a pillar of the West Coast financial establishment, began imagining himself a buckaroo blackjack hero. For six...
Secondly, the profession has to pull up its socks and take more responsibility for monitoring what it does. The profession has to be more critical of itself, it has to set up more rigorous systems for evaluating its own technology, making rigorous decisions about what's justified and what isn...