Word: assessing
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...will graduate from college, the SAT adds nothing over high school grades alone." Grouse and Jencks, in a previous study, concluded that the SAT, as a so-called aptitude test, encourages students to believe they can get by on innate intelligence, without hitting the books, while achievement tests, which assess mastery of the secondary-school curriculum, reward diligent study of standard academic courses. They note, "We think emphasizing tests like the SAT in college admissions undermines efforts to improve secondary education...
...declining fortunes would eventually rub off on their own party. For the F.D.P, a substantial loss of support could be fatal. According to the West German constitution, any group that fails to win at least 5% is excluded from the Bundestag. Troubled by internal disagreements and trying to assess a possible shift in alliances at the national level, the F.D.P. decided to enter elections in the state of Hesse without their local S.P.D. partners. The Free Democrats reasoned that if they did well enough in the Sept. 26 Hesse elections to help the Christian Democrats win, they were prepared...
...effacing approach that has helped Shultz settle into his role as the pointman of American foreign policy. In a methodical and low-keyed way, he has spent his first six weeks in office putting mortar between the crumbling bricks of U.S. policy. Outside thinkers have been summoned to help assess basic American goals around the globe. Seminars with the President and his aides have been instituted so that decision making will be less haphazard. And for the moment, at least, a renewed partnership between the State...
Perhaps most important of all, opponents argue that the worth of land simply cannot be measured in dollars and cents. "The idea that man can assess the value of a piece of land doesn't take into account what we've learned about ecology in the last 40 years," says Maitland Sharp, conservation director of the Izaak Walton League. To be sure, there is no way to calculate the dollar value of the view from a mountaintop, the solitude of a forest or the airy freedom provided by a piece of open land near a crowded city. There...
...there are other groups at large on the political scene now, using their democratic freedoms for ends Piven and Cloward will never consider progressive. Mass political participation produced Martin Luther King--but also Howard Jarvis, George Wallace, and Jerry Falwell. To put it another way, Piven and Cloward correctly assess the contradiction between capitalism and democracy: Phillips, however, paints a subtler picture of an America bedeviled by multiple contradictions--regional, cultural, racial, religious, and ideological. Nowhere is this basic flaw in their analysis more evident than in Piven and Cloward's dismissal of Reagan's appeal to "traditional values...