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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always amused to read articles concerning teacher testing. It seems that because the tests "are praised by politicians and criticized by educators", those who criticize the test are always portrayed as being right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...January 9, 1999 administration of the MECT, 95 percent of the students who were repeat test takers (i.e., had failed before) failed once again. So any variance in test scores isn't big enough, or consistent enough, to push some of these people over the passing threshold. These poor souls also apparently all had the bad luck to get a bad proctor and/or a faulty tape both times they took the test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...agree that maybe the test should be looked into, and I am open to the possibility that the test may be unfair, but I think The Crimson and other newspapers should put away their violins, stop playing their sad songs, and open themselves to the possibility that people are failing because they are unprepared, and they fail repeatedly because they do not invest the time and effort in order to make themselves prepared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...least 10 gates, small and unfrequented, were class gifts. But what about the major gates, the ones with inspiring inscriptions, or memorial plaques or the ones most every student passes through every day? Does anyone look up? Do Harvard students love what sets them free? Consider the following test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rites of Passage: How Well do You Know Your Gates? | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...least 10 gates, small and unfrequented, were class gifts. But what about the major gates, the ones with inspiring inscriptions, or memorial plaques or the ones most every student passes through every day? Does anyone look up? Do Harvard students love what sets them free? Consider the following test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RITES OF PASSAGE | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

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