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...classroom learning comes from the annual Scholastic Aptitude Tests, which most college admissions offices use to judge applicants. SAT scores have been falling every year since 1962, and the new figures-based on last year's tests taken by 1 million high school students-show that the trend is continuing (TIME, Dec. 31, 1973). Over the past twelve years the average score has dropped from 478 to 440 on the verbal test and from 502 to 478 on the mathematics test. Highest possible score...
Helping to confirm the general downward trend in learning, the National Assessment of Educational Progress-a federally funded testing organization-reported last week that students knew less about science in 1973 than they did three years earlier. The test, which covered 90,000 students in elementary and junior and senior high schools in all parts of the nation, showed the sharpest decline among 17-year-olds in large cities, although suburban students' test scores fell...
Following the trend of German scholarship, the book puts considerable limitations on the Bible. It says that "we can learn virtually nothing" from Scripture on specific questions of sexual morality. The Ten Commandments are "to a large extent conditioned by their age." Many New Testament passages are described as interpretations that were made later on by the church instead of accounts of what Jesus said...
Pipkin said he wants the CHUL to come up with a "coherent plan" that could stop the trend of students being sent to Houses to which they do not wish...
Last week Pillsbury Co. cut wholesale prices on a broad range of biscuits and other products by 10%. In addition, farm-commodity prices have been dropping for months. Many experts, looking forward to a bumper crop this fall, expect the trend to continue. Since October, corn has slid from $4.03 to $2.84 per bu., wheat from $5.45 to $3.61 and sugar, which was trading at a horrific 64? per lb. in November, to 28? on commodity markets. Choice beef has been declining. But increasingly tight supplies will probably force it up by 10? or 12? per lb. at retail levels...