Word: york
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...adequately studied. All these ingredients-the large talent, the inaccessibility, the crusty pride-have made Still a somewhat mythic figure in American painting and put him in a position to dictate terms to any museum in the U.S. So it is with his current retrospective at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, a panorama of 79 huge canvases, Wagnerian in ambition and theme...
...more immediate concern to most librarians. Delegates were united in a call to reapportion library funding from towns and cities to the Federal Government, which now pays only 5% of national library costs. A U.S. Senate proposal to study such a shift has been sponsored by New York Senator Jacob Javits. Like many another U.S. child of immigrant parents, Javits traces his rise from poverty to the hours he spent after school-working away in the neighborhood public library on the Lower East Side...
...divided about whether objection should be made to tests, to the misuse and overuse of tests, to the values of a test-happy society or to testing as an aid to inadvertent discrimination. But the conferees were clear enough about supporting a federal legislative measure, proposed by New York Congressman Ted Weiss and curiously dubbed truth in testing, that would require national aptitude testing companies to disclose test questions and answers shortly after tests are given. Scheduled for consideration by Congress next year, the measure has drawn heavy opposition from testing organizations, which warn that the costs to students will...
Mainstream or not, some of the reaction to the reform movement has been strong. In New York, where a statewide truth-in-testing bill similar to that proposed by Weiss is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, all but eight of 26 testing groups expect to halt testing instead of disclosing the questions on their exams. Included are the new Medical College Admissions Test, Dental Admission Test, Nursing School Aptitude Examination, and the Veterinary Aptitude Test. The Scholastic Aptitude Test for college applicants will continue to be offered in New York, but four times a year, rather than eight...
Some of the groups test only a handful of applicants in New York. They argue that spending an estimated $25,000 to prepare a new test each time 300 people take the exam would require a cost to the student of $80 or more. Insisting that "there is a definite limit to the number of high quality questions that can be generated," the Association of American Medical Colleges, which tests about 5,000 New York medical school applicants annually, has brought suit challenging the constitutionality of New York...