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...such as the National Black Sisters' Conference and an association of Spanish-speaking nuns called Las Hermanas. Best known of the larger nuns' groups are the National Assembly of Women Religious (N.A.W.R.), organized in 1970, and the National Coalition of American Nuns (N.C.A.N.), founded by Sister Margaret Traxler in 1969. Sister Traxler's hope: to end "domination by priests, no matter what their hierarchical status" in the internal affairs and renewal of sisters' orders...
...TRAXLER North Hollywood, Calif...
...Traxler lists hundreds of elaborate tests designed to find out all about a schoolboy by "measuring" his background, attitude, aptitude, achievement and personality. Some of them: the Tweezer Dexterity Test and the Wiggly Block Test, to measure manual skill; the Cardall-Gilbert Test of Clerical Competence; the Meier-Seashore Art Judgment Test, the California Test of Mental Maturity, and the Orleans Geometry Prognosis Test (to predict the ability of pupils who never studied the subject...
...Traxler also discusses the Anecdotal Record. (These are cards that the teacher fills out when Junior spills an inkwell or seems emotionally disturbed. The teacher then turns the card over to the Guidance Officer.) Dr. Traxler quotes an example of a poorly filled-out Anecdotal Record...
...Says Dr. Traxler: "The phrases showed his great desire to get attention, born troublemaker, and bad influence in this school are matters of opinion that have no place in a report of the incident itself. An objective report of what took place would read approximately as follows: "Incident. In study hall today, George whispered frequently and created a disturbance by various antics which attracted the attention of the pupils sitting near him." This is a brief, clear statement of what took place. . . . The interpretation can well be placed in a separate paragraph carefully labeled thus: "Interpretation. George seems...