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...guarantee you one thing: it ain't going anywhere without a strong push from the very top." The general is right. This is something President Bush might think about--if he wants to leave a distinctive mark on the American military, inspire a new generation of citizen-soldiers and succeed in the larger war on terror...
...Simpson and Nick Lachey (of 98 Degrees). For those who haven’t seen it, the premise is simple: Jessica says something dumb, Nick bashes her psychologically and Jessica’s self-esteem plummets. Fight, sulk, repeat. Like Penelope and Tom in Vanilla Sky, Jessica and Nick succeed in making us profoundly uncomfortable because in the end, we know what we are seeing is real...
This coming May, a very special group of seventh-graders from Texas will be visiting Harvard. Conventional wisdom has deemed that students like them—underprivileged African-American and Hispanic children from the inner city—cannot succeed in public schools. Forgive them if they find such generalizations to be offensive and wholly untrue. Indeed, our educational establishment would do well to note the accomplishments of schools such as their academy in Houston, a founding member of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP...
...Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis maintains, “The SAT I has been a long time valuable tool for us;” similarly, Julie Peterson, a spokesperson for the University of Michigan, supports the SAT I for its “predictive value in how a student might succeed...
...minority high school where an SAT score several hundred points lower than a perfect 1600 is a reason for celebration, I have seen many of our students with low scores make the dean's list at respected universities. Why? Because they have a passionate desire to succeed. That is the only standard by which they should be judged. The key indicators of a student's success in college are his or her determination and work ethic in high school. Perhaps college admissions officers should rely less on standardized-test results and more on making phone calls to high school teachers...