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...than were their predecessors. After holding steady for decades, the average scores on the College Entrance Examination Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test, still the broadest standard of nationwide educational achievement, have been falling slowly but steadily since 1962. As measured on the SAT'S 200-to-800 scale, average verbal ability has fallen by 10% (to the 430 level), while average math skills have declined by 6% (to the 470s). Expectations that gifted s students, at least, would benefit from the infusion of money and technology into education also seem dashed. The number of high achievers on SAT tests (those...
...failure rate exceeds 12%, I'll be questioned," he says. "Someone would likely ask me if I weren't expecting too much. So the failure rate goes down, but the quality and quantity of work also go down Not surprisingly, SAT scores have fallen?57 points on verbal 64 in math, since 1962?approximating the national decline. More than half the present senior class were reading below grade level when tested in the ninth grade; Marshfield has since inaugurated a well-equipped "skills lab" with personal tutoring to help the slower readers...
...might encounter a valuable source who is willing to give the reporter information, but only for the reporter's education, not for printing. The reporter decides that this so-called "background information"--though certainly not as good as usable, attributable information--is better than nothing, and he makes a verbal contract with his source not to print what his source tells him in exchange for the information...
Thomas Steele '62, president of Perini Land and Development Company, said yesterday his company has "a verbal understanding" with TAC to serve as its developer if the committee continues to consider...
Zuckerman said TAC then reneged on a verbal agreement that would have allowed him to review the firm's plans well in advance of their submission to the committee. The architectural firm wanted to change its position in the development team from a partner in a joint venture to an architect providing a service, he added...