Word: testes
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...charitable foundation began discussing a national school-supply program. One trustee suggested tapping into World Vision's Brother to Brother plan, which operates throughout the U.S. Some time later, World Vision's Robert Odom overheard Chicago school principal Tyson fretting that her students had no pencils for a citywide test. Odom called BTB in Tempe, Ariz., and urged them to start a school-supply program. "We've been talking to SHOPA for a year about this," he was told...
...college guides offering to lead families through the thicket of come-ons and promises. Among these are venerable tomes such as The Fiske Guide to Colleges and Peterson's Four-Year Colleges, as well as recent entries that include products from TIME and Newsweek, each paired with a test-preparation service--TIME with The Princeton Review and Newsweek with Kaplan. The most watched of these guides is the annual ranking of America's "best" colleges and universities by U.S. News & World Report. The U.S. News formula has evolved over 12 years into a complex calculation that purports to measure quality...
What Zemsky wants to know is this: What does a degree from Harvard, Hamilton or Humboldt State get you in life? Is it worth the investment? To test his methodology, Zemsky identified seven market segments and recruited 15 institutions--members of the 160-campus Knight Collaborative--that spread across all seven. He had them survey their class-of-1992 graduates six years out of college. Over the course of nine months, the participating schools were able to get a 48% response rate...
...validity of Zemsky's measures of such amorphous qualities as "confidence," which struck some of the participants as mushy. "He's got to be a bit sharper in defining the qualitative measures," says David Paris, associate dean of faculty at Hamilton College. Zemsky plans to do a second test this coming year and hopes to have the project up to scale with 600 institutions by 2001. If the schedule holds, future collegians may have a better view of what they're buying in the next century...
...frenzy of vibrant melodies, pizzicati flurries of fast notes, vigorous chords, and just general virtuostic brilliance. Gil Shaham was obviously in his element, a consummate performer to the very end. On top of that, he tossed it off exuberantly, making it all look completely effortless and fun-that litmus test of true performance magic...