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Remember Belmont
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 12.27.1999
No learning will take place at the $200 million Belmont Learning Center but at least one official has taken a strategic lesson from the disaster.
Controversy over SAT Exam
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 12.14.1999
Over this past year, there's been a loud drumbeat to de-emphasize the SAT exam, which is used by most colleges and universities to help determine admissions. The U.S. Department of Education has issued a draft guideline saying that colleges should rethink their use of the SAT if it adversely impacts minority admissions. Here in California, Gov. Gray Davis successfully pushed the UC Regents to admit pools of high-school students on grades alone. Why all this effort against the SAT, and is it justified?
Let Lawmakers Discover Smaller Schools
Submitted by Thomas Dawson on 12.1.1999
From President Clinton on down, cutting class size is a hit among politicians of almost every stripe. Despite spending billions on class-size reduction at the federal, state, and local levels, recent evidence suggests policymakers should have focused more attention on smaller schools, not smaller classes.
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