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Right after that classic nightmare of having forgotten to study for the exam comes the horrific vision of taking the test only to have the answer sheet lost. Last week in New York City the vision became reality. Portions of 542 New York bar examinations, which for the would-be lawyers who had just taken them were the culmination of years of graduate study, disappeared from the state board of law examiners' offices. The deeply abashed three-member board alerted police and quickly notified the unlucky 542 out of the 6,562 tested. "There is no way to express...
...than 200,000 teachers and school administrators in Texas last week had to swallow a heavy dose of a prescription they have handed out to their pupils for years: a test in language skills. And they did not like it at all, for the results of the two-part exam will determine whether they can go on teaching in the state...
...decision handed down the week before the test date, Travis County District Judge Harley Clark ruled that the test could proceed. The teachers, backed by the National Education Association, the umbrella union for the state association, will appeal to the Texas Supreme Court, which may rule on the exam's validity before the results come out in June...
Though most educators see nothing wrong with a competency exam for new teachers, the objections of the Texas veterans found widespread support. Gregory Anrig, president of Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., refused to let Texas administer his company's National Teachers Examination, which is given to new teachers in 28 other states. Anrig withheld the exam because Texas' "purpose is to use the test as the sole determining criterion of whether a teacher should remain in the profession...
This hopeful bit of chauvinism would come as a surprise in Arkansas, where in the past year 35,000 of the state's 45,000 certified teachers have been subjected to a math, reading and writing exam. Some 10% have flunked, and anger at the testing process has been a major reason that about a third of those eligible have sought early retirement. And there are no signs that the Arkansas teachers will soften their stance on the test. "They have not begun to support it," says Clarence Lovell, a testing and certification officer...