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Since then, the FAA has launched high-speed "safety audits" of the country's nine largest airlines. Critics, including the airlines, pilots and outside safety experts, are furious, charging that the process was flawed from the start, hastily done and staffed by inexperienced personnel. "For those passengers who wonder if the Federal Government is doing all it can to make flying safer, this safety-audit process represents exactly the wrong way to go," says Jim McKenna, the former safety writer for Aviation Week and now executive director of the Aviation Safety Alliance, an industry group set up to improve public...
Officials at the FAA defend the idea and execution of the audits and claim safety has been enhanced by reviewing just how the system stays safe. In her first comments on the process, FAA head Jane Garvey explained, "The end result of these audits is stronger airline programs. These safety audits focused the FAA and the airlines on how to raise the safety bar even higher than it is." Sources at the agency admit the process has been tense and the FAA has been forced to rethink how it goes forward...
...board had plenty of reasons to worry before then. The California rumblings come at a precarious time for the SAT. To be sure, it remains a key part of the college-application process. Last year 44% of the kids who graduated from high school took it, up from 41% in 1995. In all, more than 2 million students took the SAT in 2000. The second biggest admissions test, the ACT, had 1.8 million takers last year. Published by an Iowa testing company, the ACT started in 1959 as a rival to the SAT and focuses more on subject matter than...
...California president Richard Atkinson's push to abolish the SAT. In fact, Katzman is ecstatic, calling the SAT "a vestige from another era" that "should be discarded at the first possible moment." It's a position he can afford to take, as his company, which is in the process of going public, recently launched homeroom.com a potentially profitable interactive tool meant to help kids prepare for their state exams...
...scores withheld. Now it's crunch time for the school's admissions officers, who have holed up in an unassuming white clapboard house on campus to carry out the new policy. Over the past two weeks, Mount Holyoke has allowed TIME to sit in on its selection process, provided we did not use the real names of the applicants under discussion...