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Across the nation, Massachusetts has become thecase study of what not to do in teacher testing,says Gene J. Campbell, director of licensing forthe Colorado Department of Education...
Campbell's state of Colorado, which has usedNES since it initiated teacher testing in 1994, isone of NES's larger clients...
While the NES-administered teacher tests havehad a successful start in Colorado, Campbell saysthe development of the Colorado test in 18 monthswas "tight...
George Doeschner had been suffering from Parkinson's disease for 12 years when his physician told him about an experimental surgery that might offer a cure. Researchers at the University of Colorado were taking cells from embryos and putting them in the brains of Parkinson's patients to replace cells killed by the disease. The 55-year-old electrician applied to be a part of the experiment and flew to Denver. He was prepped for surgery and sedated. A hole was drilled through his skull. Then his surgeons sewed him up and sent him home--without giving him those embryonic...
...turns out that the placebo effect is especially powerful in Parkinson's disease. That's why Curt Freed at the University of Colorado and Stanley Fahn at Columbia University decided to create a control group whose members could be fooled into thinking they were getting the full surgical treatment. "When you have something as major as surgery," says Fahn, in defense of his experiment, "wouldn't it be best to know there was some benefit...