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...tests administered under the oft-maligned Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) came in for some unexpected praise last week when a California research institute released a report comparing the tests to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a federal test used to create a national baseline...
...between the NAEP and MCAS reading tests was small compared to other states. And more Bay State students actually passed the NAEP math test than the MCAS one—of the 12 states analyzed in the study, Massachusetts was the only one to employ a test shown to be harder than the national...
...process at Harvard is not dissimilar from the practices of other elite schools, and it’s a formula colleges say has served them well over the years. The admissions procedure may be subjective, but it has survived the test of time...
...Pragmatists contend that the drop-off is mostly a matter of cost. Although individual drug tests seem cheap - $25 to $50 each, according to Quest - the total expense gets difficult to justify when so few tests come up positive. According to a 1999 ACLU study, the federal government spent $11.7 million to find 153 drug users among almost 29,000 employees tested in 1990, a cost of $77,000 per positive test. Many industries, particularly construction, transportation, health care and retail, also face labor shortages, and the fierce competition for workers may compel employers to forgo drug tests that could...
...most persuasive explanation for testing's fall from favor is that, from a business perspective, it never made much sense. Companies began to test primarily because the federal government drafted them into the war on drugs. In 1986, the President's Commission on Organized Crime called on private employers "to support unequivocally" that "all use of drugs is unacceptable" and instructed the government to deny contracts to companies that did not do drug testing. President Reagan quickly ordered tests for federal job applicants and employees who carried guns or held "sensitive positions," and in 1988 Congress passed the Drug-Free...