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...Saturdays ago, a group of students scrambled into seats at Brother Rice High School in suburban Detroit to take the SAT college entrance exam. Some of their feet didn't touch the floor. Why? Because dozens of the students were seventh-graders or younger. One was in third grade. That same morning, my own daughters, ages 6, 10 and 12, were at home, watching cartoons and eating Pop-Tarts. It didn't occur to me to measure their smarts against those of high-schoolers. Or even to fake doing so, like "boy genius" Justin Chapman's mother, who falsely claimed...
...open to anyone who pays a $25 fee, and parents are having their kids take it at younger and younger ages--for practice, for bragging rights, for a chance to get into programs for gifted children at universities like Johns Hopkins. More than 172,000 students in eighth grade or lower took SAT or ACT college entrance exams last year, up 19% since...
Much of the SAT's material isn't taught until high school, so younger children often score poorly. Critics say giving the test so early saps the confidence of insecure kids and creates competitive students who focus not on learning but on mastering standardized tests...
...Early detection is still the best preventive measure, and that means yearly mammograms, even in women younger than 50." RICHARD B. REILING, M.D. Columbus, Ohio...
...there a new generation gap? A disconnect between managers and their younger charges? Consider this real-life exchange, noted in a new book by consultants Lynne C. Lancaster and David Stillman. A middle-aged manager had come to the aid of a younger employee on a project. The cadet took the time to send a thank-you note, but it was an electronic version, which failed to impress his mentor. "I get a card that basically costs nothing and required no effort to send, after I gave so much," she groused. "Am I supposed to be flattered by that...