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...learning tool," Donohue explained. "The union will always agree with people's right to free speech, and this was a chance to show [the new officers] how the University operates and how the department works...
...DuPont Pharmaceuticals, hopes to double ETS's overall revenues within five years, to more than $1 billion a year. "The future for testing is in K-12," says Landgraf. "It's the biggest initiative we have." His golden ticket may be ETS's new "e-rater," a nifty tool that can grade essay questions in under a second, using advanced artificial-intelligence technology. ETS claims the scores the e-rater spits out match those given by human graders 97% of the time. That's as accurate as a second human reader...
...fact, Katzman is ecstatic, calling the SAT "a vestige from another era" that "should be discarded at the first possible moment." It's a position he can afford to take, as his company, which is in the process of going public, recently launched homeroom.com a potentially profitable interactive tool meant to help kids prepare for their state exams...
...answer is that there wasn't really any inconsistency between Atkinson's speech and Bush's, even though one man wants to abolish tests and the other wants to institute them, because the underlying idea is the same: to use tests as a tool to encourage students to master a set body of material in school...
This is not the underlying idea of the SAT--in fact, the original idea of the SAT was almost exactly the opposite: to use a test as a tool for discovering and whisking away to universities a small number of students of extraordinary ability, not to try to find out how well most students were learning or most schools were teaching...