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Experts are uncertain about the reasons for high Asian performance. William Dean, who directs special programs in Fort Collins, Colo., where there are 150 Asian-born students, observes that whatever the students' verbal skills, "there is a universal language available in mathematics." The Asians speak it fluently. The national norm for math on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is 467 out of a possible 800. In 1981, Asian Americans averaged 513. In California a remarkable 68% of Japanese-born students scored over 600, as did 66% of students born in Korea...
...like the playing-card Queen of Alice in Wonderland; it doesn't move with the slapstick speed of Punch and Judy. On the contrary, Gogol's characters, the bourgeois of 19th century Russia, are fairly ordinary people; the humor of inept matchmaking and awkward courtship is less visual than verbal. Nevertheless the show--performed Monday at Children's Hospital and weekends at Quincy House--speaks to the children in the audience. By simplifying the plot and exaggerating its comic elements. Scott Weiner's production gives The Marriage juvenile appeal, while offering an enjoyable show for the older audience members...
Princeton's early acceptances compose a select group. The 350 admits boast mean SAT verbal and math scores of 688 and 724, respectively, and include 99 valedictorians among their number...
...schools, said last month." is to learn what we can do "Cambridge school principals and officials have noted that students throughout the system tend to meet the city's minimum standards in math, but fall far below in reading and writing. With this nationally noticed deficiency in students verbal abilities comes a more unusual figure, and one Cambridge may be able to do some thing about System wide fewer sixth graders met the competencies than either third or eights graders. And in all schools and all grades, percentages of students meeting the minimum were lower in spring 1982 than...
Their father, who has "only raised a few games home and away in the last four years," says he doesn't really notice the verbal abuse from the crowd but does "not like at all the physical pounding that Scott takes in front,"--though he adds. "There...