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IBM is trying hard to catch up. Last spring it organized a computer teacher-training program in cooperation with the Educational Testing Service, which produces the Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Last summer the company gave 1,500 of its PC machines to IBM-trained teachers in 88 schools, and last month...
Proposal 48 would require freshmen atheletes to have minimum Scholastic Aptitude fest SAD conluned Score of 700 and minimum high hool grade point average of 20 line want to play on a varsity team.
Jackson describes sports as an arena in which some of "society's fundamental debates are also being waged." As an example, he discusses potential problems created by a recent National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) decision to probibit freshmen from playing intercollegiate athletics unless they obtain a minimum score of 700...
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...