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Americans quiz their kids more than anyone else in the world: 46 million students from kindergarten through high school are subjected to more than 150 million standardized tests each year. The results of that exercise seem dismal. Only 5% of U.S. high school seniors are deemed able to pursue higher mathematical study. By most measures, students in a variety of industrial countries continue to demonstrate that they know far more than their American peers about basics in history, science and reasoning. Who needs more tests...
...remarkable feat of hubris, this month's Dartmouth Alumni Magazine published a mini quiz titled, "Is Harvard Becoming More Like Dartmouth?" The magazine urges readers to "Test your ability to discriminate!" (exclamation point theirs). The quiz lists 46 facts, and asks readers to identify which apply to Harvard, which apply to Dartmouth and which apply to both. Here's a sampling...
...practice may have begun at a private school in Washington on Jan. 18, when a group of tenth-graders did poorly on a math test. When the results came back, the class asked the teacher for a makeup exam, explaining how unfair it was to quiz them on the morning after the first missile attack of the war. They had lost too much sleep watching CNN the night before...
...tape: a CD can be copied without even fractional loss of sound quality onto a DAT tape. But the equipment will prevent that copy, even though it can be duplicated on conventional analog cassettes innumerable times, from being copied on another digital tape. Got that? There will be a quiz Monday morning...
None of the quiz questions amounted to a revelation, and most had been collated by pop psychologists before. Does your spouse or significant other talk confidently about a subject on which he or she previously showed ignorance, or even hostility? Is Sally Jesse Raphael being quoted around the house a lot? Do you find yourself involved in foot races to answer the telephone...