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Two years ago, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his schools chancellor, Joel I.
IOWA CITY — Like an airline overselling a flight, the University of Iowa extended admission this year to several thousand more applicants than it could accommodate on campus in this fall’s freshman class. Post a Comment Enlarge This Image Stephen Mally for The New York Times Michael Barron, the University of Iowaâ??s assistant provost for enrollment management and director of admissions, has succeeded in luring more students. While nearly every university overbooks each year, relying on sophisticated algorithms that predict just how many admitted students will probably go elsewhere, Iowa officials were surprised to learn this spring how far off they were in their math
MIDDLE SCHOOL students are champion time-wasters. And the personal computer may be the ultimate time-wasting appliance. Put the two together at home, without hovering supervision, and logic suggests that you won’t witness a miraculous educational transformation.