Word: somes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Two weeks ago at the NEA headquarters in Washington, the air resounded with attacks on testing. Representatives of reform-minded organizations plus a smattering of professors, school administrators and test experts from 28 states gathered at a meeting organized by a cumbersomely titled group ("Project to DEmystify the Established Standardized...
Mainstream or not, some of the reaction to the reform movement has been strong. In New York, where a statewide truth-in-testing bill similar to that proposed by Weiss is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, all but eight of 26 testing groups expect to halt testing instead of...
Some of the groups test only a handful of applicants in New York. They argue that spending an estimated $25,000 to prepare a new test each time 300 people take the exam would require a cost to the student of $80 or more. Insisting that "there is a definite...
The remote root of the conflict was idealism, the immediate cause, greed. Afrikaners-Dutch Calvinist settlers-had been in South Africa for 150 years when the British took over the Cape of Good Hope during the Napoleonic Wars. In the 1830s parliamentary idealists in London decreed an end to slavery...
Gallant's characters have been in trouble. They are exiles and émigrés, always from the provinces of the heart, often from some place in Europe tossed by convulsions of war or politics. One story follows the sad, late return (1950) to Berlin of a German prisoner...