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...crisis season for college acceptances climaxed across the country last week, 102,000 Georgia youngsters sat through a multiple-choice test to determine whether they too would qualify for a higher level of education. In a series of sessions totaling 90 minutes, they scribbled their answers. Then they went home, where their families are sweating out the mid-May announcement of whether they would gain admittance -- to the first grade...
...perils of early testing became clear last summer to administrators of the Norwood-Norfolk central school district in New York. A shocking 61% of children hoping to enter kindergarten there failed a standard test for readiness. After they were consigned to a special two-year kindergarten, a study showed that the test had a 50% margin of error...
Next year's QRR data exam will be similar to the existing test, but will "involve more logical thinking and less formula-plugging," said David R. Golob '89, a test proctor and a member of the Undergraduate Council's Academics Committee...
...Richmond said the QRR subcommittee would ask the Standing Committee on the Core to let members of the class of '92 fulfill both parts of the requirement by passing Statistics 100. By doing so, he said, the University could test the value of requiring a course rather than an exam...
Scientific researchers do not use the mentally retarded as test subjects in experiments. Why? Severely mentally retarded people are incapable of analytical thought. Yet something stops us from considering them as valid research subjects. We seem to feel that there is something inherent in being human that makes us more "worthy" of life than the other species on Earth...