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Each year, thousands of U.S. high school students lunge for that brass ring of academic success: high scores on the College Entrance Examination Board's aptitude and achievement tests. Those who average more than 650 (maximum: 800) go to the head of the admissions line at 900 select colleges, ranging from Harvard to Harvey Mudd.* But do the largely multiple-choice tests
...member of the power structure at Harvard, von Stade has destroyed the illusions of women in Harvard-Radcliffe. We are encouraged to believe that we are among the select few who will be allowed to become active participants in our society only to meet with institutional discrimination in undergraduate and graduate admission, in faculty hiring and promotion. We are encouraged to think of ourselves as having the power to define our own lives-only to meet with Harvard's definition of us as excluded by our sex from fulfillment of our individual and social potential. Von Stade makes very clear...
Although the Tigers should not challenge the Crimson's undefeated record, a Princeton upset today would be especially costly to Harvard. The NCAA District 1 selection committee is meeting Saturday after the soccer games to select four teams for the New England playoffs...
...does the entire informal approach, on the experience of Italian Educator Maria Montessori and the research of Swiss Psychologist Jean Piaget. Though academic structure is outwardly minimal in such informal schooling, says Silberman, it becomes apparent to children as they explore the books and materials that knowing adults select for them. Moreover, teachers freed from lockstep group discipline can observe individual children more carefully, prodding them to move beyond easy materials and stick with difficult ones...
...wrote ads, pamphlets and did public relations. But at the end of the summer he left, disillusioned by the "disaster and disgrace" of the New Politics convention in Chicago. He even considered moving to Spain. Instead, Leonard was hired by the Times as one of seven "previewers" who select and recommend books to the Times' critics. Nineteen months later he was promoted to critic-and found his métier...