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For parents who will be in this situation in a few years, you could do worse than take a page from the playbook of James Montague, director of guidance and support services at Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the United States and one that selects students based on exams and grades.
As a model, they cited Townsend Harris High School in Queens, which admits students based on exams.
In contrast with many universities, the vast majority of marks at Oxford are awarded based on exams sat at the end.
Could it be that 'competitive dumbing down' happens when independent institutions competing for pupils are ranked by league tables based on exams set by those with a vested interest in the outcome?
And that is one of the great ironies of the French establishment: while it enjoys the privileges associated with the elites of the United States, entry is, if anything, much more rigorously meritocratic, based on exams and ever-narrowing selection from an early age.
Consider that Asians make up anywhere from 40 to 70 percent of the student population at top public high schools like Stuyvesant and Bronx Science in New York City, Lowell in San Francisco and Thomas Jefferson in Alexandria, Va., where admissions are largely based on exams and grades.
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The system is based on exam scores, including one on Chinese language ability.
The initial guided group activities were based on exam questions, clicker questions, and problems for informal group work that one of the authors (SF) had used in several previous iterations of the course.
Cambridge, for example, simply rejects, reasonably, the benchmark based on exam grades (which equates a handful of good results with many indifferent ones).
League tables of schools, based on exam results, are published every year.
Many law schools even use computers to mathematically determine cutoffs between a B+ and a B, based on exam points.
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