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That was just the first of many changes intended to make parents feel welcome. Constantino, 42, knew that a top predictor of a child's success is parental involvement in his or her education. But Stonewall faced a problem familiar to many schools in the suburbs, where parents in two-career families commute long distances to demanding jobs--and where a quiet kind of educational neglect often breeds mediocrity...
Idea density turns out to be an astonishingly powerful predictor of Alzheimer's disease--at least among the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Snowdon found by reading nuns' early writings, he could predict, with 85% to 90% accuracy, which ones would show the brain damage typical of Alzheimer's disease about 60 years later. "When we first looked at the findings," says Snowdon, "we thought, 'Oh my God, it's in the bag by the time you're in your...
...Trying to predict what consumers will do has always been the soft spot of economics as a science - it's an exercise in futility. Consumer sentiment numbers are thought to be a good predictor, but there are times that there's a big difference between what consumers think and what they...
...executives who signed a letter to universities objecting to the test cited the differences between bubble-in tests and workplace tasks. They also noted that that a high score on the SAT is not the best predictor of future success. Because of the SAT’s long history and its relatively simple format, it is not a difficult test for which to prepare. Students who familiarize themselves with the format of the test and likely vocabulary words have a definite advantage over students who do not. Capitalizing on this fact, companies like The Princeton Review and Kaplan offer elaborate...
...parlance of Mount Holyoke's admissions officers, Susan is a "score blocker." Last summer Mount Holyoke announced that for a five-year trial period, it would give applicants the option of withholding their test scores, allowing the college to test the effectiveness of the SAT as a predictor of college success. This fall applications rose 10%, with 1 in 6 scores withheld. Now it's crunch time for the school's admissions officers, who have holed up in an unassuming white clapboard house on campus to carry out the new policy. Over the past two weeks, Mount Holyoke has allowed...