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Even if educators could agree on standards, there would remain the sticky problem of designing national tests. Computer-scored multiple-choice exams are efficient and economical -- typically costing $15 a pupil -- but they also encourage mindless memorization. So-called performance-based exams, using essays, hands-on experiments and the like, are better for promoting reasoning skills but can cost as much as $50 a student, according to N.A.E.P. Chairman Finn. Whatever kinds of tests are eventually chosen, educators are sure to complain that they are being forced to "teach to the test," thus robbing students of real learning and depriving...
...violence is an epidemic in this country. In too many cities, the news each night reports another death by a gun. As dealers push out in search of new addicts, Smalltown, U.S.A., is introduced to the mindless gun violence fostered by the drug trade...
Most likely to turn your child into a space cadet. At first, home video games were supposed to be educational, teaching the kids computer literacy and all that. Then came Nintendo, purveyor of the Super Mario Bros., to revitalize the world market for mindless alien blasting. Parents now suspect that there is something disturbingly addictive about these amusements, but at least they keep the kids off the streets...
...exaggeration to say that liberals' distaste for critical self-examination gave the country eight destructive years of Reaganism. Unless liberals abandon mindless defense of obvious failures, we can only look forward to many more...
...Mindless Nitpicking Dept.: What does Lehigh University have against women? Nothing, really. But an unexplained quirk in the athletic coupon book seems to imply that females were not welcome at the Harvard v. Lehigh football game. The coupons for every other game announce, in p.c. gender-neutral language, that students must present the signed coupon "with a Harvard identification card." The Lehigh game, for some reason, was open only to those with a coupon "signed by the owner, with his bursar's card...