College Board Finds 27,000 Unchecked SATs
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1758778&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
* College Board Finds 27,000 More Unchecked SATs,
Incorrectly Giving 375 Students Low Marks
BOSTON Mar 23, 2006 (AP)— The College Board apologized
to high school students and college admissions offices
after acknowledging that more students received mistakenly
low scores on the SAT exam, a mistake discovered just as
many students await college admission decisions.
Douglas Kubach, chief executive of Pearson Educational Management,
said in a news release that the company is "determined to take
every possible necessary step to restore confidence in this process,"
but a Pearson spokesman said he could not comment further
on how the mistake happened.
"This would be a comedy of errors if the impact on
human lives were not so tragic," said Robert Schaeffer
of the group FairTest, which opposes excessive standardized
testing. "How many more missing forms are there lost in
the system? How many other errors have not been re****ted?"
The College Board said that from now on all answer sheets
would be scanned twice, among other new precautions, and
that it would retain consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton
to perform a comprehensive review within 90 days.
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Bush has a "sink or swim" attitude towards No Child Left Behind,
outsourced employees, Katrina victims, U.S. Troops,
Iraqi civilians, ...
The presidunce keeps saying competition is good for Americans
(cooperation was never his strong point).
One way to create more US/third-world competition is to
dumb down Americans while educating third worlders with
H1-B visas and job outsourcing/offshoring.
Bush: Be All You Can Be, a Farmer:
http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=18445
Globalization provides great op****tunities, and the 300 million
strong middle class in India provides a classic op****tunity for
American farmers and entrepreneurs and small businesses, Bush added.
"Resistance is Futile" Says EU, become entrepreneurs:
http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=18873
The fund aims to offer new skills training and promote
entrepreneur****p amongst workers laid off or who lost
their jobs due to a major company's moving elsewhere and
restructuring as a result of relocation.
Globalization Threatens National Security
http://www.acm.org/globalizationre****t/summary.htm
One solution to this potential negative impact is for
cor****ations or their governments to provide programs
that aid these individuals and their related communities
in once again becoming competitive. The cost of such
"safety-net" programs can be high and, thus, difficult
to implement politically.
Bush: U.S. Shouldn't See India As Threat
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bush;_ylt=ArKFRUVvzuzfqPX4VfAwRSis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
But he said America's best response to globalization is not
to erect economic barriers to protect workers, but educate
them to make sure they can compete on any stage.
Bush: American Children Should Speak Arabic
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3586962.html
The plans, which represent an expansion of some programs and
the start of a few others, aim to involve children in
foreign-language courses as early as kindergarten while
increasing op****tunities for college and graduate school
instruction.
U.S. opposes push to defend local languages, cultures
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-10-17-culturaldiversity_x.htm?csp4
The convention enjoys the backing of virtually all of UNESCO's
191 member states, which see it as an im****tant tool for protecting
local languages, arts and culture against the inroads of
English-speaking globalization. However it is strongly opposed
by the United States, which argues that the text is vaguely defined
and could be used by governments to suppress freedom of expression
and the interchange of ideas.
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