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...will design the tests, how they will be carried out and funded, and how results will be reported. But given the controversy surrounding national standards and student testing, the fact that the President embraced the notion at all was remarkable. "To superimpose some norms would be radical," says Chester Finn, chairman of the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (N.A.E.P.), a 20-year-old federal testing program. "To expand it to everyone would be revolutionary...
...choice exams are efficient and economical -- typically costing $15 a pupil -- but they also encourage mindless memorization. So-called performance-based exams, using essays, hands-on experiments and the like, are better for promoting reasoning skills but can cost as much as $50 a student, according to N.A.E.P. Chairman Finn. Whatever kinds of tests are eventually chosen, educators are sure to complain that they are being forced to "teach to the test," thus robbing students of real learning and depriving teachers of control...
EMORY'S Policy Statement on Discriminatory Harassment aims its restrictions at "objectionable epithets, demeaning depictions or treatment, and threatened or actual abuse or harm," as well as sexual harassment, which it defines at length. Chester E. Finn, a former assistant secretary of education, and James Taranto of the Heritage Foundation are very upset by the restrictions at Emory and other colleges...
...Finn was moved to write an article in Commentary in which he pointed to anti-harassment codes as a sign that the college campus was becoming "an island of repression in a sea of freedom." James Taranto complains in the most recent issue of College Voice that the codes "stifle the free exchange of ideas...
...town they are terrorizing holds a meeting to name their antagonists, decides "graboids" will do nicely and starts dithering over defensive strategies. Perfection, Nev., by this time has a total population of nine, not counting the plucky visiting geologist (Finn Carter), but it has all the social stratums a movie needs to make funky, glancing social commentary, rather in the manner of a country-and-western song. The entire upper class is represented by a survivalist couple (well played by Michael Gross and Reba McEntire) eager to employ their expensive arsenal against something, anything. The middle class, all four...