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Last November, ETS officials and others heard speaker after speaker criticize standardized testing at the National Conference on Testing in Washington. Groups such as the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the National Education Association (NEA) all have complained of serious and potentially dangerous shortcomings of tests. Since then the siege on testing marked by the conference has become a prominent nationwide issue...
Gerald O'Leary and Jean Sullivan-McKeigue, sister of former committee member Kathleen Sullivan-Alioto, also won seats on the committee, edging Jean McGuire, Kevin McCluskey, Boston PTA president Rita Walsh-Tomasini, and former committeeman Paul Ellison, who served time for embezzling city funds...
...academics isn't everything. St. Petersburg black Community Leader Harry Harvey, whose six-year-old daughter is bused daily, is pleased. "Now it's just like it was in the Army," says Harvey. "You go to the PTA and sit beside each other at football games and you say, 'Hey, you're just like anybody else...
...writing is spare but flowing, with no set tense. Common nouns are idiomatic; a digs-with-mouth is a badger and a cloud-bird is an eagle. Mahto terms appear regularly, pta for buffalo and itancan for leader. And although the style at first seems ponderous and tedious, it soon becomes soothing. Like the book, it is steady and predictable. Also like the book, however, it is not for everyone...
Changing society's image of the prostitute seems to be as important a goal to Weeks as gaining acceptance of the profession. She quickly points out the other skills and second jobs many prostitutes have--"We are church goers, PTA-goers and mothers," Lewis says of the women he worked with, "Some had dropped out of the seventh or eighth grade; others had master's degrees...