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...such gains have come at a hefty price, as classrooms have morphed into pressure cookers and as teachers dumb down creative lessons to teach only to the test. And recent studies allege that the gains in minority scores might be illusory. According to a study published last month by Walt Haney, an education professor at Boston College, growing numbers of the state's minorities - as many as 50% in some schools - are either dropping out or are granted "special education" status, meaning their test scores are not counted toward their school's overall ranking. Says Haney: "Any system leaving that...
Kunitz said he has admired many poets over the years, including John Dunne, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson...
...still and golden. The summer trees are fat with their foliage. On Fourth of July weekend, I am rereading David Reynolds' splendid book "Walt Whitman's America" (1995). It gives me, among other things, a sense of reassuring continuity. We need the past - good, bad, mythic, squalid - as a counterweight. It is sometimes hilarious to see what a mess - embroiled, quotidian, contemporary - the American past actually...
...Walt Whitman is one of the favorite writers of Norman Podhoretz, the longtime editor of Commentary magazine, who has written a new book called "My Love Affair With America." Podhoretz' subtitle is: "The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative." I admire Podhoretz immensely for the clarity, decency, and, shall we say, ruthlessness of his thought, but "cheerful" is not the first word he brings to my mind. A few years ago at a dinner in a highly WASP old club in New York, I watched Podhoretz sink his teeth (figuratively speaking) into a supercilious liberal's calf...
...greater accountability in the schools contend that teachers--not the tests--are to blame for the cheating. But even some backers of tough standards are taking a second look at the tests. "Research shows that using test scores in combination with grades results in a more valid decision," says Walt Haney, a senior research associate at Boston College's Center for the Study of Testing. "The clear solution is to reduce the stakes." Such wisdom is swaying some politicians. Conceding that some tests have begun "to crowd out all other [classroom] endeavors," President Clinton this spring said testing...