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Pipho, Chris – Educational Leadership, 1979
The minimum competency testing issue raises basic questions--who controls public education and what should be taught? (Author)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing

Wise, Arthur – Educational Leadership, 1979
Minimum competency testing is not so much an educational movement as it is a power struggle. State legislatures will be the winners; teachers and poor students the losers. (Author)
Descriptors: Accountability, Competency Based Education, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education

Brickell, Henry M. – Educational Leadership, 1978
Discusses seven important issues that should be considered by educators in developing a minimal competency testing policy. (JG)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education