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...lengthy standardized test to determine how much they have learned. This test, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), will provide essential information to secondary school educators about which areas of their curricula are being absorbed well and which areas need improvement. However, there is another side to this exam: The high school class of 2003, ninth-graders this year, will not receive high school diplomas if they cannot pass the English and mathematics sections of the test, which they will first take as sophomores...
...article [COLON CANCER, March 13]. It should nudge many readers into talking to their physicians about colon-cancer testing. And more kudos to Katie Couric for her willingness to describe what she experienced during her colonoscopy, reinforcing TIME's statement that "most people find the idea worse than the exam." PAUL GAERTNER JR. Athens...
While many people may have found Couric's crusade against colon cancer and her televised colon exam distasteful, I give her a lot of credit for spreading the word. Early detection allows the doctor and patient to work together to gain control over the suffering caused by such illnesses. This campaign may make some fidget with discomfort, but that's nothing compared with the effects of a diseased colon left untreated. LISA TANER Belmont, Calif...
Many parents say the test is too long and puts too much pressure on elementary and middle school students. Some parents prefer that their students not take the exam...
...Alessandro said the district keeps its own MCAS statistics--which account for students who didn't take the exam--to measure the progress of elementary schools' improvement plans...