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Think of them as Big Mother. Though they don't actually practice medicine, companies like American Healthways use the Internet and other high-tech equipment to keep track of your vital statistics and your treatment, reminding you to take your medicine or schedule a follow-up exam with the doctor. On rare occasions, and at the last minute, they might even drive you to, say, a dialysis clinic if no other options are available...
While his work focuses more broadly on measurements of educational achievement, Koretz’s work has a specific focus on so-called “high-stakes” testing, like the Massachusetts MCAS exams or the New York Regents exam. This field has been the subject of widespread controversy in recent years...
...certification requirements exist for good reason: how else to guarantee that the people who will lead our schools and teach our kids are qualified to do so? And shouldn't education, like law and medicine, be a considered a profession? Nobody complains about forcing lawyers to pass the Bar Exam or doctors to slave through at least four years of training before being given the license to operate...
...Since federal funding is to be directly linked to how schools perform on the yearly exams, states and districts will have an incentive to dumb down their tests. The education bill passed by the Senate solves this problem by requiring all states to also administer the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). If the schools in one state show dramatic progress on the yearly state exams but not on NAEP, that would indicate to the feds that the state tests are too easy. In my government class, at the end of the year all students took the College Board...
...Ikeda Elementary School, where 21 second-graders were stabbed, is affiliated with an Osaka university. Other evidence suggests Takuma, a drifter with a history of psychological problems, harbored resentment against the school. His father, long estranged from his son, told Japanese newspapers that Takuma once took, and failed, an exam there. Takuma was also accused, in 1999, of poisoning four teachers at another school by spiking water for tea with drugs. Osaka police refused to comment on the bulletin-board message...