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...Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test. By World War I, standardized testing was standard practice: aptitude quizzes called Army Mental Tests were conducted to assign U.S. servicemen jobs during the war effort. But grading was at first done manually, an arduous task that undermined standardized testing's goal of speedy mass assessment. It would take until 1936 to develop the first automatic test scanner, a rudimentary computer called the IBM 805. It used electrical current to detect marks made by special pencils on tests, giving rise to the now ubiquitous bubbling-in of answers. (Modern optical scanners opt to use simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standardized Testing | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...passes, will also make it legal to imprison asylum seekers from Sudan. As citizens of one of Israel's enemies, they would be considered "enemy nationals" and could face up to seven years in prison. "Israel is trying to make the country appear inhospitable to dissuade another mass flow of asylum seekers from Egypt," says Rozen. On Dec. 8, Israeli media reported government plans to build a wall along the border, specifically to keep African migrants out. (See the top 10 news stories of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dangers Await Africans Seeking Asylum in Israel | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...Grew up in North Adams, Mass., in the Berkshires. Was on the debate team at St. Joseph's School before transferring to Drury High School, from which she graduated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Candidate Martha Coakley | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...among the first women admitted to Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. Graduated cum laude in 1975 and earned a J.D. from the Boston University School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Candidate Martha Coakley | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...married Thomas O'Connor, then a Cambridge police deputy superintendent. They live in Medford, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Candidate Martha Coakley | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

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