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...millionfaculty salaries $41 million student financial aid $33 million libraries, museums and laboratories $20 million Core Curriculum $20 million House renovations $20 million Faculty operations $16 million athletics, arts and Memorial Church $12 million Public Policy program $250 million Campaign goal
...attempt to open the tests to public scrutiny and to begin answering some of these questions is currently meeting stiff and unwarranted opposition. New York state this year enacted the nation's first "truth in testing" law requiring Education Testing Services (ETS) and other, smaller testing services to mail a student his corrected exam on request...
...representatives say they fear the law, and similar proposals in other states, because it may increase the costs of administering the tests. After all, if the tests are public, the service won't be able to recycle questions, forcing someone to sit down every year to write new analogies. Considering the amount of money "non-profit" ETS clears each year, though, the added costs of questions, mailings and even Xerox copies shouldn't force them out of business. ETS's real fear may be that scrutiny will be to standardized tests as hurricanes are to the Dominican Republic. Public availability...
...started innocuously enough. The New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG) included in its 1978 legislative agenda--right beside its diatribes on funeral costs and sugar content--the promise to work for a "truth in testing" bill, because "students and others whose careers are depending on the results of machine-correctable examinations have a right to know the significance of these tests...
...remember that guy fighting for parks when I was a kid," Peter Valentino, who works for the city department of public works, said. "Now, he's getting a soccer field built for us. He comes out every day and inspects to make sure it's going all right...