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Hector D. Morales Jr., 19, died at Boston City Hospital. Police said he exchanged gunfire with two plainclothes officers on routine patrol near Egleston Square in the city's Jamaica Plain section on Saturday...
...closer one's upbringing to this model, the more likely it is that one will attend college. Studies show the correlation between a person's parents attending college and the student's decision to do the same. Even in western society, the best colleges attract a fairly narrow cross-section of the population. Families enter a self-perpetuating cycle of college awareness, and hence enrollment...
Edelman said the Harvard Chess Club this year "expects a large turnout of dozens of colleges and universities from North, South, and Central America, as well as hundreds of high school students to compete in the high school section...
...that problem-solving ability is important, rather than simply the ability to identify the correct answer from a predetermined list." But Bob Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a longtime critic of the SAT, charged that the board had failed to deal with the verbal section's analogy problems, which frequently make unconsciously elitist, racist or sexist assumptions about the backgrounds of those taking the test. On one recent test, nearly 16% more men than women were able to select the right analogy to "mercenary: soldier" (hack: writer...
...grade averages. They also charge that SAT success can be learned, pointing to cram schools that promise, for substantial fees, to raise students' scores by 100 points or more. After a two-year study, Dr. Stuart Katz, a University of Georgia psychologist, concluded last March that the verbal section of the SAT measures test-savvy, not reading ability. He found that 172 college students correctly answered, on average, 38% of the multiple-choice comprehension questions without even reading the test selections. Many colleges, notably in the Midwest, are turning to the rival ACT exam, put out by the American College...