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Yesterday's Financial Times headline said it all: "US students flunk test." Confirming what we already knew, but were afraid to admit, a recent international study of high school seniors found the math and science skills of the U.S. students to be among the worst of the nations participating in the survey. The Financial Times adds insult to injury, noting (in their U.S. edition only) that "the US only scored higher than three nations--Lithuania, Cyprus and South Africa." These results offer us another opportunity to take a more serious look at President Clinton's plan for national standards...
...Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox, Jr. reported that at the Feb. 10 FAS Faculty Meeting, Dean Knowles said, "[T]he scrutiny of financial aid...is of course, made more pressing by the recent actions, for example, of Princeton and Yale...We must...ensure that the students we admit not only can but do come...
...TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Jef McAllister says that while the accord definitely shows Americans that "the U.N. can do something worthwhile," the Republicans are hardly prepared to admit that -- at least not in an election year. "Iraq is the foreign policy card the GOP is going to play against Clinton in November," says McAllister, "and the Republicans have definitely lumped Clinton's policy and the U.N.'s together." Which means that Kofi shouldn't expect that $1.2 billion in U.S. back dues anytime soon...
Harvard currently maintains "needblind"financial aid policies that it says allow theCollege to admit any student, regardless ofability...
...admissions officer who interviewed her at the state university told her that it would be a waste of taxpayers' money to admit her because she would only get married, drop out of the profession and never practice, the Boston Globe reported on Tuesday...