Word: tests
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...laughing stock if this sort of Republican ticket makes it to the Oval Office. McCain picking Palin is a big insult to the electorate and to intelligent women everywhere. The first criterion to gauge a candidate's readiness for the presidency is his judgment. And McCain has failed this test pretty badly. No matter how the GOP spinmeisters pad Palin's alarmingly thin record of public service, the majority of the American people are, hopefully, smart enough to see through their tactics. C. Echevarria-Leary, Pinole, Calif...
...first half was certainly a test for Harvard, which faced 11 shots on goal while managing only four...
...represents a marked departure from traditional models of merit pay, which reward individual teachers for increased achievement. Teachers’ unions have historically criticized and opposed such schemes for many reasons, including the competition it provokes among teachers and the manner in which it rewards performance based solely on test scores. Klein’s concession to reward entire schools instead has been remarkable in winning union support, but sadly concedes too much: Appropriating money soley on a school-wide basis will not effectively motivate individual teachers.Instead, schools should explore a hybrid merit pay model, in which schools-wide bonuses...
...Sometimes they spend so much effort and time on test prep that they lose the other parts of their lives and ironically turn out to be worse college candidates and less prepared for college overall,” he said...
...This may surprise those who were under the impression that the "truth in advertising" standard applied to all advertising. Commercial companies are bound by restrictions that prevent them from making false claims about their products or those of their competitors. Certainly, corporations test those laws all the time, but they do so at a significant risk. When Kentucky Fried Chicken tried to claim that fried chicken could be part of an effective diet program in 2004, the Federal Trade Commission penalized the company, requiring it to pull the commercials and submit all advertising for FTC review for the next five...