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Cockrell went to all her classes, did all her homework, earned all her credits. But, like just one other of her 162 classmates, she could not pass Texas' statewide high school exit exam. Cockrell had enlisted in the Army, having passed its qualifying test, and was getting ready to ship out the week after graduation. But without passing the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, she could not get a diploma, and without a diploma, her enlistment was void...
Texas is a national leader in high-stakes testing, having instituted a statewide high school exit exam in 1985 at the urging of a committee chaired by Ross Perot. Since then scores have climbed. In 1993, 51% of Texas 10th-graders passed all three sections of the TAAS--math, reading, writing--on the first try. This year 67% did. (Students get eight tries over three years...
...right, it's summer. You want a foreign-language film that doesn't play like a final exam in Comparative Cultures. So try Shall We Dance?, which Miramax Films has cannily positioned as successor to its easygoing humanist hits Like Water for Chocolate and Il Postino. Masayuki Suo's romantic comedy, the winner of 13 Japanese Academy Awards, at times teeters dangerously close to the excesses of another Miramax crowd pleaser, Strictly Ballroom. The film has such a weakness for the easy incongruity (short men dancing with tall women--isn't that hilarious?) that it could almost be Australian...
Still the Crimson headed into its exam period with a squad which had only begun to gel into a cohesive unit...
Harvard dropped a close 16-11 match at Columbia, then was pummeled by St. John's, 21-6. After the exam period, Harvard dropped another close one to Penn, then finished its match season with losses to Yale and Princeton...