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Few, if any, of the current crop of children's magazines feature the literary firepower of their forebears. But what they lack in name recognition they make up for in diversity. Nearly half, including Weekly Reader, Junior Scholastic and Science Weekly, are designed as teaching aids for the classroom. Outside...
THIS week, The New Republic carried a critique of the Princeton Review, a company that employs me to teach rich suburbanites how to beat the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The article asserts that the Princeton Review doesn't really improve students' qualifications for college but teaches them to "beat the...
A week from today, about 2000 high school seniors will receive the coveted thick envelope and be offered spots in the Harvard-Radcliffe class of 1993. Unfortunately, many of these 2000, and the 10,000 unsuccessful applicants, will have agonized on an exercise that has pathetically little to recommend it...
Factors such as high school background, scholastic rank, financial resources, concentration, athletics and social club membership all played a role in applying. Students also had to state the amount they would pay for a room, which, in that day, cost between $110 and $500 per student.
Hughes has certainly given his father ample reason to be proud. Ranked third in his graduating class, he has received numerous off-the-ice honors, including being named the Hartford Whalers Best Student-Athlete in New England and being selected All-scholastic by both The Boston Globe and The Boston...