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This summer a 44-year-old Baltimore native named Jack was waiting to have the first of at least three pre-test counseling sessions, spaced over a two-month period. Jack had already cleared the neurological exam that, if it had turned up HD symptoms, would have made testing redundant. Though Jack is healthy, he was well versed in the disease: his grandmother and mother died from it, and he knows there is a fifty-fifty chance that he has inherited the time-bomb gene. Two siblings have tested negative, two others positive. One sister is battling symptoms, including...
...finger pointing that followed last week's abrupt withdrawal of two of the country's favorite diet pills looked like a multiple-choice law-school torts exam, the similarity was hardly coincidental. Even before the FDA urged the recall of Redux (dexfenfluramine)--and Pondimin (fenfluramine), the front half of the fat-pill combo known as fen/phen--scores of lawyers across the nation had already started filing lawsuits. After the recall, the legal assault turned into a stampede. "Everyone saw money," says Jacoby & Meyers' Gail Koff...
What's more maddening to national-test advocates is the defection of their supposed friends on the left. Liberal critics assert that the math test will stigmatize poor and minority students who don't perform well. They fret that schools will use national-exam results in determining who to promote to the next grade. And they even complain that the reading test discriminates against students who don't read English. Feelings run so strong in the House that virtually all members of the left-leaning black and Hispanic caucuses plan to vote against the tests this week. "If national testing...
Others are questioning whether the country needs new national exams at all. A federally monitored examination already exists: the 28-year-old National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test that provides reliable state-by-state performance data--but not the scores of individual students. For that, many public schools use privately developed exams, such as the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and the Stanford Achievement Test. "American school kids take more than 100 million standardized tests each year," says Barrett. "We already know what schools and which children perform well or poorly." Asks Boston College professor George F. Madaus...
...requirements for "Freud" include a midterm (20 percent), final exam (30 percent), eight-page paper (30 percent) and participation, including an oral report (20 percent...