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Peer reviewedGlass, Gene V. – Education and Urban Society, 1979
In this article, both the psychology behind minimum competency testing (MCT) and the statistics employed to determine the line between competence and incompetence are attacked. MCT is viewed as a crisis created to discredit teachers and schools and as a means of invasion of public education by state level bureaucrats and politicians. (RLV)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Centralization, Minimum Competency Testing
