Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HARVARD IS KNOWN for its ability to make educational waves. And the recent announcement that the admissions office may stop requiring the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is likely to create a few. Yet while admissions officials have acted with admirable openmindedness in even contemplating a move away from the SAT...
Report cards on the nation's public schools have been dismal for a decade: teachers cannot teach; students cannot, or will not, learn. The shortcomings of the schools have been documented by lower Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, a national high school dropout rate of some 25%, the shrinking elite...
Bok--attending a special meeting of the ACE Intercollegiate Athletic Committee, which he chairs--will also confer today with representatives of predominantly Black colleges about their objections to an NCAA rule allowing freshmen to play varsity sports only if they secure a combined score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude...
In the U.S., where the Middle Ages are less modish than in Europe, the book's popularity depends on how much medieval esoterica readers are willing to slog through to reach the heart of the story. For Eco's novel, fluidly translated by William Weaver, is not only...
The evidence of decline was depressingly easy to find. About 13% of all 17-year-olds, and perhaps 40% of minority youth, are considered functionally illiterate. In 19 academic achievement tests given in 21 nations, American students never finished first or second and were last seven times. Before Sputnik launched...