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Eight pairs of parents filed the successful challenge against school prayer. The Supreme Judicial Court's swift ruling held that prayer, even voluntary, spontaneous and nondenominational, is "religious in character," hence forbidden. At week's end it was unclear whether prayer proponents would appeal...
...lover is a boring failure. It ends with her carrying to term a child she has conceived with her former husband, who is not boring and is successful. Just why she left him in the first place, or took up with the replacement she now finds odious, is left unclear. Instead, Director Sautet cuts away to subplots involving the heroine's wide circle of female friends. The point seems to be that men are not much good and that a woman is likely to find greater happiness, or anyway serenity, with her own kind. Still, everyone, male and female...
Precisely how the commission is to function remained unclear. Waldheim said that the panel would establish its own procedures and set its own agenda. Syria's Daoudy told TIME that "this is not an investigation in the juridical sense; not a grand jury, much less a court...
Apparently, what most educators have chosen to measure is intelligence, while ignoring values such as creativity, ingenuity, perseverance, compassion and patience. The standardized test, in its present form, obviously cannot and does not attempt to measure these qualities, but it is still unclear whether in emphasizing intelligence and ignoring other positive human characteristics, the test manufacturers and their advocates are doing society a grave injustice; many seem to believe they...
...score can stay with a person all his life. In many ways, SAT scores act as a status symbol, something to show off. But their value is questionable. The debate--call it war--over testing is apparently just heating up and will probably continue for many years. It is unclear what will result from the controversy, but most likely the public will begin to scrutinize tests and their results more closely than ever before...