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...might change pitches because a valve spring is breaking. "When something changes, you understand," says Cope. You will know when a car is near. "There are times you can't see it, but you can hear it, or hear the air on your car." Your skin is a tool too. "You get a sense of buffeting. You can feel the air on the car and get a sense of when to find a pocket of air." You dive into that pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Lap: What It Feels Like Behind The Wheel | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do These Two Men Have In Common? | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do These Two Men Have In Common? | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Another Big Score | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Another Big Score | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

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