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Cornell has not been ranked in a national poll since in lost to Harvard. The Big Red could clinch the eighth and final playoff spot this weekend by upsetting Harvard and No. 4 Northeastern. If the season were to end today, Harvard would host Cornell in the first round of the ECAC Tournament...
Freshman David Barry won 3-2 over Yale's Gordy Rogers in a hard-fought match at the eighth slot...
...weekend in which Harvard's best team everreturned to Cambridge, the Crimson turned in itsbest performances of the season. It picked up avery difficult four points, allowing it to moveinto a tie for eighth place with Vermont...
...little early for that kind of worry. Lajoi is only 10, and the test she was fretting about is the FCAT, or Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, given to the state's fourth-, fifth-, eighth- and 10th-graders last week. While poor FCAT scores won't keep her out of college just yet, they could hold Lajoi back from fifth grade...
...been raised too high? Some teachers and parents complain that the tests are too exhaustive--and exhausting--for young students. The Massachusetts test clocked in at 16 hours, spread over several weeks. Tina Yalen, an eighth-grade civics teacher, gave her opinion of the Virginia test: "Some of it looked like Trivial Pursuit to me." More worrisome is how a 10-year-old will react if his or her result is branded with a scarlet F. Says Harvard's Reville: "An overload of negative feedback runs the risk that students are going to shut down and not make an effort...