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...society's use of standardized multiple-choice tests to measure intelligence and academic and professional achievement. The movement includes public interest advocates in Savannah, Ga., publishers of the Measuring Cup, a newsletter devoted solely to testing reform; the National P.T.A.; the United States Student Association; Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and the National Education Association, a union of some 1.8 million teachers and school officials...
...Some of the delegates even grumbled about the national turn toward required competency tests for promotion of elementary and high school students. P.T.A. Representative Ann Kahn said that due to testing, elementary school curriculums are now concentrating on test scores-to the exclusion of basics like good writing. Ralph Nader told the conferees: "Parents and students are seriously concerned about the enormous unchecked power wielded by the Educational Testing Service, the College Board and other companies. These companies define and measure intelligence in an atmosphere that resembles the secrecy...
...search of a movement, truth in testing is only the first step. Weiss says he hopes tests will be seen in a more balanced perspective and that alternatives will be developed to replace multiple-choice tests if the current rebellion "takes the halo off the whole operation." To Ralph Nader, the main ill to be cured is "the destruction of the self-confidence of millions of students who incorporate into their own psyches the standards of evaluation set by the Educational Testing Service. ETS and the other major testing firms decide who has 'aptitude' and 'intelligence...
...federal company. The people should oversee and benefit from their legacy rather than continuing today's practice of leasing it away at favorable terms to the private oil bureaucracies. The federal government owns at least half of domestic natural resources, and the same figure probably holds for oil. Ralph Nader likes to tell audiences they already control a majority of American oil resources. A more conservative Ford Foundation estimate several years ago placed the figure for domestic oil and gas at about 40 per cent...
...Nader shared the platform last night with Samuel Schwartz, senior vice-president of Continental Oil. Schwartz said, "Although cash earnings have tripled, so have the expenditures. All of this investment goes back into the field of energy...