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...learning ability. Early tracking of students in China ensures that only the best and brightest can receive college-prep education; others are put into vocational schools or the workforce. If I taught only students who had parental support and spent hours on homework, I certainly could show higher test scores. But I believe that anyone can achieve his dream. The surly teen may mature and realize he needs an education to get the job he loves; the struggling kid may be able to get to college with better study habits. Please don't insult American teachers in this way. Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragedy at Fort Hood | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...learning ability. Early tracking of students in China ensures that only the best and brightest can receive college-prep education; others are put into vocational schools or the workforce. If I taught only students who had parental support and spent hours on homework, I certainly could show higher test scores. But I believe that anyone can achieve his dream. The surly teen may mature and realize he needs an education to get the job he loves; the struggling kid may be able to get to college with better study habits. Please don't insult American teachers in this way. Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...from the runway, a hangar will be erected to house WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo, the tandem craft designed by aerospace engineer Burt Rutan. WhiteKnightTwo is being test-flown now; SpaceShipTwo makes its public debut in Mojave, Calif., on Dec. 7. Together, they will carry two pilots and six passengers to an altitude of 70 miles - the edge of space. Passengers will enjoy five minutes of eerie silence and weightlessness (floating somersaults are allowed) and 1,000-mile views in all directions before a half-hour glide back to earth. Tickets cost $200,000, and 300 people have already signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Las Cruces | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...relationship between the military and anthropology soured during the 1960s and early '70s. In 1964 the U.S. Army recruited scholars for Project Camelot, a program whose goals included helping the U.S. Army "assist friendly governments in dealing with active insurgency problems," such as in Chile, the project's test case. The project never moved out of Chile, however; in 1965, once the public got wind of it, Project Camelot was canceled. Later, in 1970, documents stolen from a U.S. anthropologist's office implicated a number of social scientists in clandestine counterinsurgency efforts in Thailand. These two scandals created an uproar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Anthropologists Go to War? | 12/13/2009 | See Source »

...21st century, however, the SAT and the ACT are just part of a gauntlet of tests students may face before reaching college. The College Board also offers SAT II tests, designed for individual subjects ranging from biology to geography. The marathon four-hour Advanced Placement examinations - which some universities accept for students who want to opt out of introductory college-level classes - remain popular: nearly 350,000 took the U.S. history AP test last year, the most popular subject test offered. There's also the PSAT, taken in the junior year as preparation for the full-blown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standardized Testing | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

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