Word: testing
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...specially produced teaching aids like The Year 2000, written for the TEP by Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the nation's leading commentators on the future, and The 50th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Aside from quizzes in the guide, TIME'S famous 100-question Current Affairs Test is also given to students in the program. Last year over 2.5 million students checked their knowledge of current events by this test. Other aids include: TIME CAPSULE/1941, a condensation of that historic year as reported in the pages of TIME, and Great Decisions-1968, produced by the Foreign Policy...
Lost Love. Holt's basic complaint ever since has been that schools test, drill and grade children so often that they lose interest in the meaning of what is being taught, and schooling becomes a charade in which the students' real aim is to escape embarrassment and pain. By contrast, before he gets to school, Holt argues, a child has "a love affair with life." In fact, his attitude toward everything in the world about him is to "taste it, touch it, heft it, bend it, break it-and he is not afraid of making mistakes...
...tell-'em-and-test-'em" process, Holt claims, not only induces fear and discourages experimentation but leads to a concentration on answers rather than problems-and it is "dishonest and the students know it." Teachers coach the kids for the tests and care more about "the appearance" of knowledge than for real understanding. "What would happen," Holt asks, "at Harvard or Yale if a prof gave a surprise test in March on work covered in October? Everyone knows what would happen; that's why they don't do it." In this "temple of worship for right...
While most attention has focused on preparations for the manned Apollo flight, last week NASA quietly proceeded with two other pioneering programs -the record-breaking test series of the X-15 and the XB-70, respectively the fastest and the heaviest supersonic aircraft in the world. Ironically, both planes were built by North American Aviation, Inc., the company that has borne much of the blame for the January spacecraft holocaust...
...display, virtually a flying aerodynamics laboratory, is the survivor of two prototypes. Needle-nosed, delta-winged and resembling two giant praying mantises, both of the 6-engine jets had attained a speed of Mach 3 in tests. Then the second and more sophisticated of the two crashed in June 1966 after Test Pilot Joe Walker's F-104 Starfighter jet brushed the giant plane's wing, then tore through a rudder during a publicity flight. Since then, tests of XB-70 No. 1 have contributed aerodynamic and thermodynamic knowledge, including studies of the sonic-boom problem that...