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...from 3 to 5 per cent of the Harvard student body has a genuine disability. Rarely is it a psychological problem, Dinklage says. More often those who cannot learn languages are the same students who had difficulty learning to read and spell in English, even though they could speak it. To try to master reading an unfamiliar language would be impossible for them. Other students have trouble interpreting a language they hear and cannot assimilate the Harvard language courses, which have become more listening-oriented in the past decade...
...Though many professors have hope in Brustein, his battle will be far from easy. There remains diehard resistance to arts for credit, a movement backed by the belief that education doesn't necessitate credit and that students don't want anything different than what they have now. "Everyone knows the arts are wonderful and theraputic, but they're also hard work that take perserverence and often pain. Then again, just because they're educational doesn't mean that you have to get credit for it," Mayman says. "There's just no overwhelming need or desire for the arts as credit...
...states, because it may increase the costs of administering the tests. After all, if the tests are public, the service won't be able to recycle questions, forcing someone to sit down every year to write new analogies. Considering the amount of money "non-profit" ETS clears each year, though, the added costs of questions, mailings and even Xerox copies shouldn't force them out of business. ETS's real fear may be that scrutiny will be to standardized tests as hurricanes are to the Dominican Republic. Public availability of the tests may well wreak havoc on their reputation...
...tests play such an important role in determining what colleges, professional schools, and professions people end up in, we all have a right to know what the exams mean," Ed Hanley, a Nader employee who lobbied for the truth-in-testing bill in Albany last year, says. Obviously, though, the right-to-know issue wouldn't be vital unless there was some hint the tests weren't worthwhile. "This will enable us to resolve once and for all the debate over what the tests are good for," Hanley says...
...very quick to predict, however, what will happen to them. "We believe in this concept," says Churchill, a major admission from an officer of a corporation that last year mailed every state legislator more than 100 pages of anti-disclosure arguments. "We think this bill is much too sweeping, though," she says, quickly, and then grumbles through a list of the bill's weaknesses. "Who is covered? We may have to disclose this for everyone applying to a New York state school, and that would make our problems huge. What do we have to send? A xeroxed copy of every...