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...learning" in favor of rote test prep. The enthusiasm echoes a survey released last month by The Business Roundtable which found that 73 percent of parents favored statewide reading and math exams to determine which kids should be promoted from fourth to fifth grades; 65 percent supported high school exit exams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Test and Test Not | 10/5/2000 | See Source »

Parks said that Harvard also requires graduating students to attend an "exit interview" about their loan obligations with the financial aid office...

Author: By Margaretta E. Homsey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Loan Defaults at Record Low | 10/4/2000 | See Source »

...Harvard plans to launch a website that provides the same services as the exit interview...

Author: By Margaretta E. Homsey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Loan Defaults at Record Low | 10/4/2000 | See Source »

...late '80s, Krayzelburg's parents were so worried about the deteriorating Soviet system that they applied for exit visas. The family, including Lenny's sister Marsha, finally left the U.S.S.R. in 1989 and landed in Los Angeles. At what should have been the peak of his career, Krayzelburg instead found himself struggling to learn a new language, getting a maintenance job at the local Jewish community center and swimming only a couple of hours a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lenny Krayzelburg | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

Then he suddenly ran to the front again and kicked in the flimsy cockpit door. He grabbed for the captain and first officer, who pushed him back. Three passengers blocked the door in case he rushed it again, while a flight attendant and another passenger walked him to an exit row in the plane's center, where three more passengers gathered around him, holding him down. "You're not going anywhere, buddy," one said. They asked him questions, trying to keep his mind off flying: Where are you from? Who are you visiting in Salt Lake City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homicide In The Sky | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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