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Alexander M. Meyer ’10, who goes to b.good “pretty much every day” and who regularly orders the “El Guapo” with coleslaw—the calorie count of which fell from 486 to 465 in the new tests??said the adjustments would not deter him from frequenting the restaurant...
...SHORTER SCHOOL DAY, A BROADER CURRICULUM Parents of potential students opposed expanding the school day from six to eight hours, as the Martin Luther King, Jr. School and the Fletcher Maynard Academy—two schools that have historically performed near the bottom on standardized tests??have done recently...
Furthermore, there would be no incentive for students to do well on such tests??the carrot and the stick, as the Education Department apparently envisions it, are directed towards the institution. If such a system were implemented, colleges would likely spend precious funds on preparing their students for the test instead of giving them an actual liberal arts education. But the preparation would be futile, since students’ welfare would not be tied to their scores...
...solved by having the TSA, or another agency, rate airlines’ security policies. Thus, an individual would be free to choose an airline that rates, say, a D in security—just as they are free to choose a car that gets only one star in crash tests??if they prefer the convenience or price despite the risks...
...working with Kennedy School Assistant Professor Brian A. Jacob ’92—flagged classrooms in which students’ exams evinced unusual strings of identical answers in the middle of the test. The researchers found that some teachers were actually altering their students’ tests??erasing wrong answers and filling in the correct bubbles themselves—to boost scores. The study resulted in six teachers being fired and three principals being strongly reprimanded. As students prepare for final exams, let them be forewarned: with an economist like Levitt on your case, any monkey...