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ERIC Number: EJ203055
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1979-May
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Why Minimum Competency Testing Will Not Improve Education.
Wise, Arthur
Educational Leadership, v36 n8 p546-49 May 1979
Minimum competency testing is not so much an educational movement as it is a power struggle. State legislatures will be the winners; teachers and poor students the losers. (Author)
Descriptors: Accountability, Competency Based Education, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Opinions, Political Power, Testing
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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