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...math section of the exam, as it stands, tests only material that virtually all high school students are guaranteed to have covered by their junior year. Adding questions in more advanced topics, such as trigonometry or calculus, would only widen the disparity between students of different educational opportunities. At present, students with knowledge of geometry and algebra can take the exam with an emphasis more on problem solving than mastery of multiple disciplines of mathematics, which some may never have learned. Instead, to widen the the distribution of math scores, questions should be more complex—without requiring mastery...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Flawed Way to Test | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...addition to raising money and expanding the campus physically, Snyder also worked to add professors to the HSPH faculty and widen the scope of the school’s curriculum into emerging fields such as demography and human ecology...

Author: By Frank Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dean During HSPH ‘Golden Age’ Dies | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

...this is the epitome of Republican philosophy and policy: remove resources from the worker bees of America as quickly and efficiently as possible and concentrate them in the assets of the wealthy. The Enron collapse just continues what deficit spending and tax breaks for the wealthy have done to widen the income gap since the 1980s. PAMELA MULLER St. Petersburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 25, 2002 | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

Several students commented that his ability to widen linguistics’ appeal by relating it to other subjects makes it a more exciting concentration...

Author: By Elliot N. Neal, CONTRIBUTING | Title: Professor Vaux Enlists Students in Tenure Fight | 2/19/2002 | See Source »

...ethnic landscape. As a former colony of France, Algeria's historical links lie on the other side of the Channel. Its citizens form only a small percentage of Britain's 2 million Muslims. But for some reason, Algerian Islamic extremists turn up again and again as British security services widen their investigations into the al-Qaeda terror organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Algerian Connection | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

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