Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CLAO and the powers-that-be may be shattered as the office moves from "service" cases toward improving the state of the poor in the face of the law. Ferren says they will try to "aim broadsides against institutional adversaries of the poor,"--chiefly by using the weapon of test cases. Eligibility standards of local welfare boards are one primary target of the "institutional reform" policy...
...Another test case seeks to establish a standard procedure for what the City Health Department calls "the little old lady syndrome." In the past, when a health inspector found an elderly person living alone who did not appear capable of taking care of himself--or who might be a danger to neighbors through carelessness--the inspector usually had him committed to a mental institution for observation...
...tests also undermined the conviction of American education that better teaching lies in smaller classes. The average class size for 13-year-olds in Japan is 41, compared with 29 in the U.S. Family background was found to be a major influence on test scores, but Japan is so far ahead of the U.S. that even the sons of unskilled workers scored higher than U.S. children whose fathers are college-trained professionals...
Demonstrating its versatility in last week's test, the SV-5D fired nitrogen jets in response to commands radioed from the ground, changing its attitude as it soared through space over the Pacific. Then, as it followed its trajectory back into the atmosphere, the craft moved its control flaps, turned, and detoured 500 miles before returning to its original course and splashing down in the ocean near Kwajalein Island. Though the SV-5D sank, and was lost when heavy seas ripped away its flotation gear, its otherwise successful flight brought closer the day when man can first steer...
...Adler last year sold U.S. buyers 480 million ballpoint pens, almost all of them use-and-discard models priced from 19? to 49? retail. Adler keeps a quarter of his 300 plant employees busy checking the quality of parts coming off automated production lines, personally scrutinizes the daily writing-test samples before each shipment leaves the temperature, dust-and humidity-controlled plant. "People are going to remember you if you're good," says Adler, "but they'll remember you better...