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Making the Grade: A Look at the Minimum Competency Movement.

Bregman, Susan – Independent School, 1979

An overview and critique, with special reference to independent schools, of the minimum competency testing movement as a solution to the political and educational furor over declining student achievement. (SJL)

Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Competency Based Education, Educational Objectives

Dispensing with Justice: State Regulation of Independent Schools.

Lalley, Joseph M., Jr. – Independent School, 1980

Questions states' powers to legislate nonpublic schools. Advocates: (1) demonstration of self-regulation and accountability; (2) moral and financial support by professional organizations in litigations; (3) task force study of government agency control of private schools. (JD)

Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Justice, Legal Responsibility