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...Testing Trap, however, does not discuss. It asserts. Everything about it is combative, from its chapter headings ("Branding Children--Closing College Doors--Narrowing Graduate Opportunites--Blocking Access to Licensed Professions") to its singsong polemical style. Strenio writes in a conversational second-person manner laced heavily with rhetorical devices. ("You've heard of setting the fox to guard the hens?") and breaks frequently into first-person to stress-a point or tell a sad little story about a friend ruined by low scores--sprinkling his pages with "I think" and "It seems to me" in the fashion that English teachers work...
...curricula weren't geared to the test. He thus ignores the point that a properly "basic" test is designed to detect severe shortcomings in the school system. And afterarguing convincingly that the tendency for schools to coach for tests rather then teach subjects is harmful, his "Beating the System" chapter heartily recomments SAT prep course plugs Stanley Kaplan by name, and adds that in prepping properly for the tests a student should pick up a core of basic knowledge...
...more chapter in the continuing saga of former Harvard racquetman MIKE DESAULNIERS. Desaulniers last weekend captured the $15,000 Dunlop U.S. Pro Squash Championships in Detroit. The tournament marks the third straight time in as many weeks that Desaulniers has beaten Sharif Khan, the current number one world ranking professional. Desaulniers is the first man to ever beat Khan in three consecutive weeks...
...problem in the first place. Students have three other courses, they have social lives (that's something teaching fellows find very hard to relate to), they are majoring in something else. The big difference is that all this is new to them, each lecture unfolds a new chapter, and they really don't know where it's all heading until it gets there...
Although the authorities do not quite know what to do about the problem, there are sporadic attempts at intimidation. The district prosecutor summoned the leadership of the local Solidarity chapter to his office two weeks ago for an "off the record" meeting, to warn them that they faced fines and imprisonment for occupying the building. That night the local TV news program carried an account of the meeting...