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...yesterday’s Faculty meeting, Professor of Chinese History Peter K. Bol proposed an amendment requiring students to use the course slot formerly held by the eighth Core for general education purposes rather than further concentration work, but the amendment was defeated by a wide margin...
Knutsen finished sixth in the epee at regionals, following up her strong third-place finish a week ago at the IFA Championships. Shulz placed eighth in the foil to qualify for the NCAAs...
...some respects Derek is a regular eighth-grader. He's quiet and polite. He plays the drums. He used to be on the swim team before he quit to make time for his computer business. He remembers vividly when he first saw VeriChip on the Today show. "I thought it was great technology," he says. "I wanted to be a part of it." And when Derek sets his mind to a problem, he generally solves it. "Derek stood up and said to me, 'Mom, I want to be the first kid implanted with the chip,'" remembers Leslie Jacobs, an advertising...
...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...
There's even a practice run for peewee test takers. To join "gifted" programs, students in grades 3 through 6 can take an ACT designed for eighth-graders. It's not for my kids, though. They have cartoons to watch, CDs to play, childhoods to live. I cringed when I heard about a mom who brought her video camera to a classroom window at a Michigan high school. Her child was inside taking this ACT, and she wanted to capture the moment...