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Members of the council's academics committee criticized the faculty proposal, which would eliminate the option currently offered to honors seniors who are taking general examinations. These seniors are allowed to take an April hourly exam in place of the regularly scheduled final in courses being taken for concentration credit...
...result, the Crimson (9-11 overall, 5-3 league) must win nine of its 10 remaining league games to force a playoff game with Penn (12-4 league) for the EIBL crown. With Penn lying dormant during its exam period, a sweep of those games would give Harvard the title outright...
...first grade. This year Georgia became the first state to require a standardized written exam as part of a "readiness assessment" that determines who passes and who fails kindergarten. Testing of various kinds is prevalent in three-fourths of the other states for evaluating aspiring first- graders. In Minneapolis, for example, kindergartners must answer a set of 56 verbal questions put to them on a one-to-one basis (last year 13% failed). Many Connecticut and Michigan youngsters face similar tests. But only Georgia asks all its tots -- in both public and private schools -- to sit down, No. 2 pencils...
...exam in use is a pared-down version of the California Achievement Tests. Children are asked to identify shapes, numbers and objects and solve rudimentary math problems ("Sam is the tenth person in line. How many people are in front of him?"). "It was easy," bragged Jesse Palmer, 6, after taking the exam last week at Tybee Elementary School, near Savannah. "I got every one right." Jo Buckley reported that her daughter Candace "thought of it as a game...
...everyone is so nonchalant. Parents and educators alike have questioned the use of the exam at such a tender age and wondered just what it really measures. In North Carolina such doubts last year led state legislators to alter a law requiring first- and second-graders to take the CAT. "There was a general feeling that testing that early pigeonholed the children," explains Lee Monroe, senior education adviser to the Governor...