Word: sats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past midnight when the film ended, but neither of them moved. Kidman, on strict voice rest for her Broadway show, The Blue Room, madly scribbled notes to her husband; then they sat and watched it again. "The first time, we were in shock," Kidman recalls. "The second time, I thought, 'Wow!' It's going to be controversial. I'm proud of the film and that period of my life. It was my obsession, our obsession, for two or three years...
...must have been a difficult task to choose the heroes and icons of the 20th century [TIME 100, June 14], but I am very impressed with your selections for this special issue. I sat down to take a quick look at the magazine and did not get back to work for several hours. This issue will never be discarded. JEAN SIMMONS Oshawa...
Suppose that in the three decades since affirmative action has been in place, middle-class black students had brought their SAT scores up to those of whites. We wouldn't be arguing about whether letting more blacks into the best colleges meant lowering standards. But between 1988 and 1998, the gap between average black and white SAT scores widened slightly, from 189 points to 194 points. To Redwood, that is a warning that something has gone terribly wrong with the way we are schooling our children. It's a crisis that affirmative action simply cannot resolve...
There is nothing token about the new outreach programs. They are not remedial but creative, even difficult. Dick and Jane have been replaced by Antigone and Pericles. Middle-school math tutorials go on for hours and progress to higher algebra. SAT drills are constant, and college essays are rewritten many times. "Its a huge difference," says U.C. Irvine student tutor Sonia Velazquez. "Kids know when it's remedial and they're being talked down to, no matter how nice you put it." But to be in the outreach program means to be special, bright, even cool. When Willard held sign...
...their children to be part of the math academies, parents have to commit to 4-hr. Saturday-morning sessions of U.C. Irvine's Parent Academy. There they are coached in what classes their kids need to get into college, how to gauge SAT scores and how to apply for financial aid. "These programs help parents have self-esteem, feel proud," says Mel Pelayo, a computer-network administrator who left school in third grade. "I didn't go to college, but I'm not a loser. I can help my kids...