Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Class of 1981, like this year's freshmen, will probably sport cumulative Scholastic Aptitude Test scores some 20 points higher than the Class...
...have just flunked another test in Economics 5177 and you have decided that the only way you are going to pass the course is by paying a social visit to the professor...
Billy Cleary and his boys realize that Dartmouth is no pushover. Led by All-Ivy candidates Kevin Johnson and Ron Dove, and the excitingly erratic Jeff Sollows in the cage, the Crimson are in for a critical test. Why critical? Because a win tonight and one at Yale on Saturday would keep Harvard in sixth place and give them a good chance to face old Beanpot Buddy B.U. in the first round of the post-season playoffs...
When should students be tested? Many states, realizing that students must have time for remedial work if they fail a competency exam, are studying programs that would test students from early elementary grades upward. Extended remedial programs, however, would clearly cost additional tax dollars which may not be available. Warns Paul Hubbard, executive secretary of the Alabama Education Association: "Without a commitment of funds, the real danger is that we'll give a test that will put the stamp of failure on thousands of Alabama young people, and no alternative course will be available...
...most outspoken opponent of minimal competency is Educator Arthur Wise, whose influential 1968 treatise, Rich Schools, Poor Schools, argued that children in both affluent and underprivileged school districts had the right to an equal education. Wise is currently working on another book, tentatively titled Hyper-Rationalization, which condemns competency testing for "narrowing the goals of education and prompting teachers to teach the test." Wise fears that minimal competency entails the extension to education of such business-school concepts as cost effectiveness and accountability. Says he of minimal competency advocates: "It is as if they want to set goals and objectives...