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Peer reviewedBenjes, John; And Others – Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, 1980
Written primarily for litigators, shows how minimum competency tests that are used to deny high school diplomas to disproportionate numbers of minority students can be successfully challenged under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Author/MK)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Discrimination, Equal Protection, Graduation Requirements
Peer reviewedDexter, Coe F. – Social Science Record, 1987
Reviews some of the characteristics of the New York state social studies testing program and describes how new questions are developed for the test. (JDH)
Descriptors: Educational Testing, History, Minimum Competency Testing, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedWallat, Cynthia; Piazza, Carolyn – Theory into Practice, 1986
The authors examine the content, time, teacher performance, and leadership policies which have been legislated in several states as a result of the national wave of discontent with the quality of education. Emphasis is on the need for implementation of these policies to be informed by recent reseacrh. (MT)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Extended School Year, Literacy
Macchiarola, Frank J. – 1979
This document provides a brief review of the New York State Basic Competency Tests (BCT), Preliminary Competency Tests (PCT) and Regents Competency Tests (RCT), together with a summary of the results of the tests administered in New York City in Spring, 1979. Test requirements for 1979, 1980, and 1981 are outlined, as well as administrative…
Descriptors: English, High School Students, Junior High School Students, Mathematics
del Refugio Robledo, Maria; Cortez, Albert – Intercultural Development Research Association Newsletter, 1983
Although the results of minimum competency tests need to be interpreted with caution, data on the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills (TABS) for 1980-82 clearly indicate the inadequate results of remedial programs for minority students in Texas. Secondary analysis of the data shows that overall performance on exit level math and reading tests…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Blacks, Compensatory Education, Grade 9
