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  2. Ruth O'Brien - Wikipedia

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    In 2003, she became the executive officer of the Ph.D./M.A. program in political science at the CUNY Graduate Center. [4] As of 2024, O'Brien is a professor at the City University of New York. [5] O'Brien is known for her writings and discussions on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 [6] and its

  3. Holistic grading - Wikipedia

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    In 1980 assessment of school writing was being conducted in at least 24 states, the large majority by writing samples rated holistically. [51] In post-secondary education, more and more colleges and universities were using holistic scoring for advance credit, placement into first-year writing courses, exit from writing courses, and ...

  4. ACT (for-profit organization) - Wikipedia

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    ACT Academy [22] is a free online learning tool and test practice program designed to help students prepare for the ACT test. ACT Aspire [23] measures readiness in English, math, reading, science, and writing from the elementary grades through early high school (grades 3–10). Performance on ACT Aspire predicts performance for early high ...

  5. City University of New York - Wikipedia

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    In fall 1957, for example, nearly 36,000 attended Hunter, Brooklyn, Queens and City Colleges for free, but another 24,000 paid tuition fees of up to $300 a year ($3,300 in current dollar terms). [20] Undergraduate tuition and other student fees in 1957 comprised 17 percent of the colleges' $46.8 million in revenues, about $7.74 million ...

  6. List of City University of New York institutions - Wikipedia

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    The school was fashioned as "a Free Academy for the purpose of extending the benefits of education gratuitously to persons who have been pupils in the common schools of the … city and county of New York". [10] The Free Academy later became the City College of New York, the oldest institution among the CUNY colleges. [11]

  7. Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City ...

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    The CUNY Board of Trustees approved the Graduate School of Journalism's creation in May 2004. [1] Proposed by CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, the school was to focus on teaching reporting skills and news values at a time when other journalism schools were emphasizing education in academic disciplines such as political science and statistics .

  8. Lara Vapnyar - Wikipedia

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    This last point, that the act of creative writing is cathartic and formative, is especially true for Vapnyar, who has wondered (in interviews) whether she would have learned to feel at ease in the United States without writing fiction in English. For Vapnyar, creative writing is her primary “means of establishing her identity in her adopted ...

  9. CUNY School of Law - Wikipedia

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    CUNY School of Law's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 16.5% indicating the percentage of the Class of 2022 unemployed or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job nine months after graduation, while those graduates who responded in 2017 reported a mean salary of $62,360 and median salary of $59,438.