Word: testing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presides over this giant test tube? The University--master administrator. In addition to classes, Harvard is responsible for students' food, lodging, physical protection, intellectual liberty, religious freedom and personal comfort...
...beginning in freshman year of high school, and the staff will help your teen pick classes, clubs, community-service projects and summer jobs, all with an eye toward creating a snazzy profile to present to college admissions directors. Achieva will tutor when your youngster falls behind and do the test prep to pull your kid ahead. The twentysomething counselors, who resemble the well-scrubbed models from a Gap ad, will even make a teenager, as adviser Tilden Fang did one afternoon, cheerfully agreeable to doing homework before play and going to bed on time...
...Elissa Hull, a counselor in Achieva's Cupertino center, insists to senior Will Chen. If the teacher demurs, she says, Chen should yank back the request rather than end up with lukewarm praise. Achieva keeps its student records in files that look like doctor's folders, with vitals--classes, test scores, deadlines and other information--regularly checked. Then there are the essays, which counselors help students conceptualize and write. And all this doesn't end when the application is dropped in the mailbox. No, the last stop may be when Achieva counsels kids on setting up their freshman college schedule...
...Everyone in the class knew who it was--the kind of kid with the slicked back hair...[who looked like] he needed a cell phone," Janey says. When a phone rang during a test, "everyone looked up and looked directly at that one student...
...rated passer in the NFL, period, is the Rams' Kurt Warner, who gets his first big test Sunday on the road against Tennessee. Although you'd think the Rams have to come to earth soon, remembering that we joined the Kurt Warner fan club a few columns back tells us that this is neither the time nor the place. Take the Rams, gladly give the three points, and remember to tip your bartender. The Rest: Giants 2 1/2 EAGLES FALCONS 2 Panthers Bills 3 1/2 RAVENS Jaguars 12 1/2 BENGALS COLTS 3 Cowboys SAINTS 9 1/2 Browns REDSKINS...