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Proponents see MCAS as an essential diagnostic and accountability tool, while it often seems as though critics, seeing MCAS as unfair, believe that if we just got the testing instrument right, then all children would be able to demonstrate mastery. This is manifestly false. MCAS tests show what virtually all tests have generally shown, that knowledge and skill in our society are unequally and unfairly distributed. The question is: What do we do about...
...probably put a bit more pressure than I should on myself,” Whitton says. “Last year was kind of like a once in a lifetime thing. It’s kind of unfair to expect that much from myself, but if I could do it last year, why not again this year...
...despite Ellison’s plea for better treatment of graduate students, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies Charles S. Maier ’68 said in an interview yesterday that hiring TFs so far in advance seemed unfair to those graduate students who are not ready to commit to teaching a semester in advance...
...What institute of higher learning can justify spending money on a golf course?” Klein said. “A lot of people freak out because the course is unfair and I think I’ve kind of come to terms with that. I kept a real even keel on everything. I’m just really unspectacular...
...threaten the existence of abortion services, the meager $1.09 from each of 101 students—the most that have ever opted out of this charge—is unlikely to impact the affordability of this service. The problem with the opt-out stipulation is that it is patently unfair and inherently favors a pro-life stance over other moral concerns...