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...theologies and overlooked the rise of Fundamentalist Christian sects. Knowing the nonbeliever's weakness for social-science data, he begins by preaching the gospel according to George Gallup. Nine Americans in 10 say they have never doubted the existence of God. Eight in 10 fear they will have to answer for their sins. Life after death is a reality for 7 out of 10. More important, Wills notes, Americans vote their religiosity. All candidates must invoke the Deity or face rejection on Election Day. And there are indications that the voters want more than lip service. During the 1988 presidential...
Harvard University President Derek Bok was chairman of a commission that recommended the changes. The revision, he says, "begins to send a useful signal to schools that problem-solving ability is important, rather than simply the ability to identify the correct answer from a predetermined list." But Bob Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a longtime critic of the SAT, charged that the board had failed to deal with the verbal section's analogy problems, which frequently make unconsciously elitist, racist or sexist assumptions about the backgrounds of those taking the test. On one recent test...
...zealous promotion of standardized testing emphasizes minutiae at the expense of mind stretching. "In some inner-city schools, kids don't read whole books," says Arthur Weiss, president of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. "They spend all their time learning how to read three paragraphs and answer multiple-choice questions." Anrig concurs. "You don't need to test a child every three months to see whether he can read," he says. "It's like pulling up a carrot to see if it's growing...
...asked to name the world's fastest-growing market for imported cars, few people would give the right answer: Japan. Over the past four years, imports of foreign cars there have been rising at annual rates of around 35% in a generally stagnant market. This year the Japanese will buy more than 230,000 foreign-made cars; by 1995 the number could double, accounting for 10% of total annual sales and about the same level of penetration as Japanese carmakers now have in Europe...
...answer is a combination of both. Some clear-thinking Silberites were genuinely disappointed by what they perceived to be the media's lack of emphasis on the substantive issues; others like those at the election-night "party" (not drunk, by all indications) objected to the media with no rational grounds for doing...