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The Courts and Your Minimum Competency Testing Program--A Guide to Survival.

Fisher, Thomas H. – NCME Measurement in Education, 1980

The events surrounding legal challenges to minimum competency testing programs are described, and ways of coping with the experiences are suggested. Discussion primarily is based on five legal challenges to the Florida program although reference is made to suits in other states for contrast. Whenever a student is faced with a threat to promotion…

Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Coping, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education

The Superintendent and Testing: Implications for the Curriculum. NCME Measurement in Education. Volume 8, No. 4, Fall, 1977.

Rudman, Herbert C. – NCME Measurement in Education, 1977

This discussion of educational trends of interest to school superintendents focuses on three issues: (1) the general decline of birth rates, school enrollments, staff, facilities, and expenditures for instruction; (2) the increase in mandated assessments and programs brought on by declining academic performance and political influences; (3) the…

Descriptors: Accountability, Data Analysis, Declining Enrollment, Educational Legislation