Monday, November 2, 2009

Halloween weekend

11-2-09—... Under Armour is teaching up with IMG Worldwide ... to run 100 training and evaluation combines for high school athletes in the US next year. Executives say the goal is to create an evaluation system in which everything from natural talent, to strength, to sport-specific ability, to nutrition and musculo-skeletal issues are reduced to a single SAT-like score. WSJ B10

--10-30-09—More states have lowered their academic proficiency standards than raised them, casting doubts on claims of educational progress. ... nearly all [states] used exams that feel short of federal testing benchmarks.... WSJ A1, A3

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