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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is every indication that the British educational system has failed. Children are streamed into classes at the age of eleven, according to their score on the British equivalent of an achievement test. Like American tests, the 11+ exam discriminates heavily against children who do not come from middle-class white backgrounds. There is no sign that British-born colored people have an easier-time...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Britain's Race Problem: Quick Rewrite of an American Tradition | 11/1/1967 | See Source »

...take up the issue of whether or not Military Science 4hf should be given for academic credit. Instead, Brooks said, the committee simply discussed the possibility of dropping the final exam in the course...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: CEP Nears Decision On Pass-Fail Proposal | 10/26/1967 | See Source »

...students nearest the professor's podium. Thus Colorado State uses 200 tapes in 23 of its anatomy courses. Students on many campuses can check out a tape and view it in a personal study carrel in order to catch a lecture they missed or review it for an exam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: The Viability of Video | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...convinced that success on a series of high-pressure examinations should not be the main criterion for participation in "honorary" activities, like the Law Review. Board of Student Advisers, and Legal Aid Society. Nor do they feel that top law firms and government agencies should recruit only among exam whiz kids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Law Dean | 10/19/1967 | See Source »

...Optional frills included home health services, dental care, eyeglasses, drugs, physiotherapy, private-duty nursing, podiatry, hearing aids, chiropractic and even the services of naturopaths. When a plan was finally approved, the federal handout was scaled to the state's income level: 50% for New York and California for exam ple, 65% for Utah. (It would be 83% for Mississippi, if that recalcitrant state were to participate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICARE: Expensive, Successful MEDICAID: Chaotic, Irrevocable | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

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