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Massachusetts Hopes Another Kennedy Will Take Up Senate

By Abby Goodnough and Sara Rimer Sep. 4, 2009

Nearly everyone in Massachusetts is waiting for Joseph P. Kennedy II to make up his mind.

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An Interactive Lecture for Modern Times: TEAL Uses Tech. to Improve Education

By Sara Rimer Jan. 14, 2009

For as long as anyone can remember, introductory physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was taught in a vast, windowless amphitheater known by its number, 26-100.

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Average SAT Scores Hold Steady Across the Nation

By Sara Rimer Aug. 28, 2008

After two years of slight declines, SAT scores held steady this year, according to a report released Tuesday by the College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the exam.

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Study on Accuracy of SAT Prompts Schools To Accept Other Tests

By Sara Rimer Oct. 3, 2008

For the 5,500 college admissions officials and high school guidance counselors who gathered here over the weekend, there were discussions, debates and analyses of things like the ethics of tracking student applicants on Facebook and “Why Good Students Write Bad College Essays — and How to Stop It.”

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Math Skills Suffer in U.S., New Study Finds

By Sara Rimer Oct. 17, 2008

The United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys, especially among those who could excel at the highest levels, a new study asserts, and girls who do succeed in the field are almost all immigrants or the daughters of immigrants from countries where mathematics is more highly valued.

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Baylor Offers Frosh Financial Incentives To Retake the SAT

By Sara Rimer Oct. 17, 2008

Georgia Green, a music education professor at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., said she did not believe it when a colleague told her in June that Baylor was offering incoming freshmen financial incentives to retake the SAT.

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Colleges Move Away From ACT, SAT Tests

By Sara Rimer Sep. 23, 2008

A commission convened by some of the country’s most influential college admissions officials is recommending that colleges and universities move away from their reliance on SAT and ACT scores and shift toward admissions exams more closely tied to the high school curriculum and achievement.

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Big Paycheck or Service? Students Are Put to the Test

By Sara Rimer Jul. 9, 2008

A prominent education professor at Harvard has begun leading “reflection” seminars at three highly selective colleges, which he hopes will push undergraduates to think more deeply about the connection between their educations and aspirations.

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Teaching Lacking at Harvard, Say Undergraduates

By Sara Rimer May. 11, 2007

Joshua Billings, 22, says he did not come to Harvard for the teaching.

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