Word: testing
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...later. Have they ever asked themselves how a teacher could give a student a passing grade for each of the years he went to school, and then he gets to the eleventh grade and they tell him he's functionally illiterate because he can't pass this test...
This month Florida Federal District Judge George Carr ordered that a diploma be awarded to Gary, and to others among the 3,445 blacks and 1,342 whites who flunked the literacy test after three tries but were otherwise eligible for graduation. In the first federal court ruling on the new wave of minimal competency graduation requirements, which have been adopted in various forms by 17 states, Judge Carr upheld the graduation requirements in general, but ruled that the Florida program was imposed too hastily. Florida's mandatory literacy test was announced in 1977, while this year...
...addition, the judge held that the test discriminated against blacks, most of whom attended segregated schools in Florida as recently as 1971. At first, 77% of blacks failed the literacy test, compared with 24% of whites; after remedial instruction and two more tries, 20% of blacks and 2% of whites still had not passed. "The vestiges of the inferior elementary education [blacks] received still are present and affect their performance," said Carr...
...York has scheduled a stiff high school graduation competency requirement for 1981 seniors, but there was more concern in the Empire State last week about another kind of testing-admissions exams for colleges and graduate schools. The issue: Should the questions and answers on these exams, which are traditionally wrapped in secrecy, be released for public scrutiny? Yes, said New York's Governor Hugh Carey, who signed a state law requiring that, as of next Jan. 1, the tests be made public 30 days after students learn the results. No, said most of the national testing groups, including...
...reason for opposition? According to Robert Cameron, testing director of the College Board: "We do not have an inexhaustible supply of new questions." ETS spends two years preparing each version of its 145-question SAT; some 21 different versions of the SAT are used annually. As long as copies of the test are hidden away in the files of ETS, they can be reused for approximately three years. "But," notes Cameron, "once you disclose a test, it must be discarded." New York's new law will force makers of standardized tests to offer new examinations throughout...