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...first test in the nation intended to be both high-stakes and high-standards. This test is not designed as a basic skill proficiency test; students are expected to know a significant amount of material if they are to pass, although they are allowed multiple chances if they fail the first test...
...significant portion of students fail, the dropout rate will skyrocket, and it will be disproportionately students from poorer districts who need a solid secondary education the most. Many students who come to school, pass their classes and fulfill graduation requirements will leave without a diploma, which is a prerequisite to advancement in today's technology-driven economy. There must be some less painful way to improve educational standards in Massachusetts...
While the staff is right to worry that too many students will fail these tests if nothing is done, the right thing to do is not to abolish the test as a graduation requirement--it is to give students the skills they need to pass the tests and succeed outside of high school. Similarly, if minority students and students from urban districts fare poorly on the test, this indicates a need to devote more educational resources to those districts, not a need to exempt those districts from standards altogether...
...setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu that uses your computer's downtime to help sort through the reams of noisy static gathered by radio telescopes. The odds of pulling a Jodie Foster (who snared the elusive extraterrestrial signal in the 1997 sci-fi flick Contact) are a zillion to one. But if you fail--or even if you succeed--nobody's going to burn you at the stake...
...reality is that natural selection can vote up or down only on entire organisms, warts and all. Individual organisms are mind-bogglingly complex and integrated mechanisms; they succeed or fail, economically and reproductively, as the sum of their parts...