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...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 is due for a "mid-course review." And on Capitol Hill, Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone proposed legislation that would penalize states financially for using exams as the sole measure of a student...
...stakes have risen, so has the pressure to perform--and the frustration among parents, students and educators. In the past year, protest-the-test groups have sprouted in at least 36 states. In Colorado, more than a thousand parents, teachers and students surrounded the state capitol in March and demanded that Governor Bill Owens take the test. (He too declined.) Parents in Louisiana, Indiana and California have gone a step further, filing lawsuits alleging that the tests violate their children's civil rights. In Illinois, 200 students claimed they flunked the test on purpose. Teachers are taking to the streets...
...would have enthroned Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond to decide the fate of their children, homes and tobacco farms if they had known how long these mucousy old men would stay in office. What twisted fate decreed that the rest of us must abide these cantankerous old curmudgeons on Capitol Hill, thanks to the dullards who sent them there? And with those two entrenched Senators being favorite sons of their states, I can only shudder to think of what's to come. F. PATRICK BUTLER Innsbruck, Austria...
...Department of Justice said three weeks ago that it is investigating the new website even before it has been booted up. Republican Senator John McCain, head of the Senate Commerce Committee and an ardent proponent of more competition in the air, plans a Capitol Hill hearing focused on T2 next month...
...very hard to get a job in D.C. in advance," says Benvenutti, who will be looking for a job on Capitol Hill, the Federal agencies, or even a Washington nonprofit. For some jobs, she says, she has found that "you need to have a full transcript before you can even apply...