Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Wilson said Mao's childhood experiences laid the basis for later actions. Mao entered primary school three years late, and as the largest child in the class, was often ridiculed, the biographer said, adding that the late chairman's rivalry with his younger brother intensified his feelings of rejection that continued throughout his life. Mao died...
Nonetheless, the question of people being denied opportunities by unfair aspects of tests remains. Some believe that standardized tests are geared toward white middle class society, putting poor people and nonwhites at a distinct disadvantage. The NAACP has consistently attacked test makers on this point. ETS officials claim and Jewett and Geraghty seem to agree to some extent, however, that without tests, many talented people would never have been recognized by admissions offices. "Abolishing tests would only hurt the people we are trying to help," Geraghty says...
...improve their scores. Until recently, ETS refused to admit that coaching could improve scores on their tests, but with the recent release of a Federal Trade Commission Report, stating that coaching does indeed help, ETS is starting to reveal exam hints in its booklets. Critics claim that middle class students who can take advantage of test prep centers, or who go to private schools, have a distinct advantage, while poor people have no such help available...
...athletic phenomena, gain little but imagery by being conjoined in a mass spectacular. The athletes don't jump higher, swim faster, or run more quickly. Instead of looking so much to the Olympics for outstanding performances, observers should look more broadly at all the meets at which international class athletes compete, and where they set most records. This is not much of a reason to save the Olympics...
Herbert J. Levine, 51, is a research cardiologist at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. He is Harvard-educated, well-traveled (he and his wife Sandy spent two weeks in China last fall) and considers himself a liberal. The Levines live in upper-middle-class West Newton, a few miles outside Boston, and vacation every August on Martha's Vineyard...