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Don’t let Fordham’s 4-1 record fool you. The Rams’ resume includes shootout wins over I-AA cupcakes Holy Cross and Duquesne, a squeaker over Columbia and an ugly victory against an Albany team that wouldn’t win most schools?? intramural flag football tournament...
...Bush’s signature No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) passed Congress, debates have raged over its focus on standardized testing to make schools more accountable for the education they offer. Now that the federal government has released its “watch list” of failing schools??that is, schools that don’t show sufficient progress on improving annual test scores—it is even clearer that Bush’s one-size-fits-all solution to America’s educational crisis isn’t measuring...
...school districts in Massachusetts, 126 met the federal government’s standards overall. These districts were put on the federal watch list because one of 16 categories of students failed to make “adequate yearly progress.” Some of Massachusetts’s best schools??in terms of overall achievement—were placed on the watch list when a small group of students did poorly on a test. This strange outcome results from an understandable desire to help groups that are often underserved by the public schools...
Princeton and Stanford tied for the next spot on the list, with 10 CEO alums each, while three other Ivy League schools??Yale, Penn and Dartmouth—all made...
Faculty say it has become harder for Harvard to maintain its preeminence in the life sciences over the last 20 years, given the proliferation of elite life science research universities—including medical schools??and relatively little investment in new University life science facilities over the last decade...