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...than many of the newfangled state exams, which require students to show their work on math problems and to answer essay questions. The writing segment of the Texas high school exit exam last spring consisted of just 40 multiple-choice grammar questions and a letter-writing assignment. A 1998 report by Harvard researcher Sandra Stotsky, commissioned by the Tax Research Association, concluded that the reading test declined in complexity in each of the previous three years. State officials deny the test has been watered down and say they're unveiling a more challenging exam...
JODIE MORSE, one of our education writers, probes the promise and pitfalls of standardized K-to-12 testing, particularly in Texas. Her story helps introduce a new regular feature in TIME, a monthly Special Report on Education that will examine the people, ideas and disputes that are reshaping the classroom. Consider those controversial exams; she notes, "They cause immense anxiety in a lot of homes." Also in this issue, writer reporter Andrew Goldstein, a former teacher, looks at colleges that have made the SAT optional; and reporter Rebecca Winters, whose mother is a school superintendent, profiles home schoolers in colleges...
Perhaps that's why I'm so leery of online auctions. I am worried that if I start fooling around on eBay, I'll end up getting ripped off or selling to someone who never pays up. Last week's FBI report indicating that online auctions are the No. 1 source of Internet fraud hardly helped calm my fears...
That may change after last week's report, delivered at a meeting of the European Cardiology Society in Amsterdam. Researchers reviewing studies involving 27,000 patients in nine clinical trials found that the risk of heart attack was 27% greater--and the risk of heart failure 26% greater--among users of calcium channel blockers than among patients taking other hypertension drugs...
Alpha-blockers, which work on the sympathetic nervous system to reduce blood pressure, used to be widely prescribed. But a report earlier this year showed that they significantly increase the risk of heart attacks, and many physicians began changing their patients' prescriptions. Doctors then as now warned that dropping any blood-pressure medication can be dangerous, and should be done only under a doctor's careful supervision. One of the calcium blocker manufacturers believes clinical decisions should not be based on this type of study alone...