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...interview with The Crimson, Summers added however that “any kind of external requirement or any kind of political party litmus test around academic hiring would be disastrous...
Except that's not exactly what the data shows. It's true that controlling for socioeconomic status (SES) eliminates most of the public-school/private-school differences in achievement-test scores in math, reading, science and history. But even after you control for SES, Catholic schools run by holy orders (not those overseen by the local bishop) turned out to perform better than other schools studied. True, as the study says, there are only a small number of religious-order schools. But the data suggests that the type of school a kid attends does affect how well he will...
...Board of Medical Examiners previously agreed to grant Currier a second day of test time because she has dyslexia and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD...
...Jones like lap dogs. She smiled, charmed, even casually addressed a few of those reporters by their first name. She showed no signs that her steroid denials, which we now know were flat-out lies, were causing any stress. She reminded us that she never failed a drug test. "The athletes who have not tested positive have been dragged through the mud," she said. I gave her the benefit of the doubt. I was not alone. "Frankly, I'm impressed," wrote New York Times sports columnist William C. Rhoden the next...
...with school and I was feeling pressure to rush through my whole life and achieve all these things. I was sort of unhappy,” said Rennell, who was a Crimson photographer. “When you’re young, it’s your time to test your body and go on all of these adventures.” The lust for adventure prompted Rennell to leave Harvard for a year to commit himself to 14 months of on-and-off filming. “He wasn’t sure whether he wanted...