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Download full textBrown, Rexford – 1978
Many states have adopted minimal competency testing in reading or writing, assuming that goals of basic education are measurable and that testing for such goals is technologically feasible. It is not clear that such testing comes at a time in history when the quality of education is demonstrably lower than at other times in American education. The…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Minimum Competency Testing
