Word: placement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty Council voted yesterday to stiffen Sophomore Standing requirements, increasing the Advanced Placement examination score students must achieve from...
...Council rejected an alternative proposal, submitted by Mack I. Davis, director of advanced standing, to increase the number of Advanced Placement exams required from three to four, as well as raise the score...
Skocpol added students who accepted advanced standing in Physics with a score of 3 on their Physics Advanced Placement exam had a "shabby" knowledge of the basic material...
Meanwhile, across the continent, a judge has just given a boost to one group of testing reformers. In San Francisco, U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Peckham last month ruled that California could not use the common Stanford-Binet IQ test to screen pupils for placement in a special program for the "educable mentally retarded." California's EMR program is 25% black, although blacks make up only 10% of the statewide school population. Even under the improbable assumption that black children have 50% more mental retardation than white children, said Peckham, the EMR enrollment pattern had just one chance...
...margins. The questions call for an end to licensing of nuclear power plants; protection of the "historic scale and character" of Harvard, Porter, Central, Inman and Kendall Squares; enactment of a national health insurance plan; support for the presidential candidacy of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), and placement of zoning restrictions on Cambridge institutions, including Harvard...