Word: highes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slow "go" for high school competency exams...
...children of Ezell, a roofer, and Mildred, an organist at the nearby New Progress Missionary Baptist Church. Gary plays the organ for pay on Sunday at three churches in the neighborhood, but he has not found a full-time job since completing the twelfth grade at Hillsborough High School. He wanted to join the Army but decided against it when a recruiter asked for his high school diploma. Gary had to tell him he did not have a diploma because he had failed to pass the Florida functional literacy test, which this year became a requirement for graduating from high...
...skill in carpentry and woodcarving, Crihfield says he has seen many such students who "reach a plateau once they get to the seventh grade, and they just can't learn any more. I think it's just unfair to try to make them graduate from high school...
...York has scheduled a stiff high school graduation competency requirement for 1981 seniors, but there was more concern in the Empire State last week about another kind of testing-admissions exams for colleges and graduate schools. The issue: Should the questions and answers on these exams, which are traditionally wrapped in secrecy, be released for public scrutiny? Yes, said New York's Governor Hugh Carey, who signed a state law requiring that, as of next Jan. 1, the tests be made public 30 days after students learn the results. No, said most of the national testing groups, including...
...have been, it was largely anticlimactic. Major whalers are already in retreat, having suffered a stinging defeat two weeks ago at a London meeting of the International Whaling Commission (I.W.C.), which overwhelmingly voted to ban hunting of all whales (except the still numerous minkes) by factory ships on the high seas; only coastal whaling will be permitted. The I.W.C. also approved creation of a whale sanctuary in the Indian Ocean...