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...emotional trauma which this testing system puts students through. America's most famous standardized test, the SAT (presently named Scholastic Assessment Test, formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test), provides the best example of the potential emotional harm to students. According to a report in last month's Newsweek, the long-term effects of the SAT are not negligible. This takes into account the domino-effect theories linking SAT scores to success in life, and the wide range of fields (including unlikely areas such as real estate) that are indirectly influenced to some degree by the SAT. A considerable number of students...
Among the long-term remedies being considered are a wage hike and even an increase in professional cleaning staff, a solution that would have to be approved by the Faculty, Sunderson says...
Last week the ache was unmistakable--and even touching--but the 300 media types watching in the press room at Dartmouth were, to use the appropriate technical term, totally grossed out by it. Whenever Gore came on too strong, the room erupted in a collective jeer, like a gang of 15-year-old Heathers cutting down some hapless nerd...
...Rubin's public-sector resume may not be complete. He's already a leading candidate to replace his friend Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve when Greenspan's term expires next June. Who knows? Before long, the metal detector could again become a thing of the past...
...idea that there is a kind of equality in the branches of government is absurd," said Wills, who called on the media to clear up common misnomers. "It has no basis in fact. The term co-equal should make the hairs on your head stand a little...