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• “The cost of all the equipment needed to perform the tests is around $250,000, but each test would cost only $350 to $550.”

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• “The original basis for this hypothesis was a series of tests from the US Army after WWII.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Neighborhood Diversity

• “The wife of one of my colleagues teaches first grade here; they start working on the kids to pass standardized tests from the begining of first grade.”

  Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Teacher’s Unions

• “The most important thing about these tests is that it takes emotion out of the equation and gives you the best potential candidate for the job.”

  Ways to Hiring the Right Employee the First Time | myFiveBest

• “The reporter took the liberty to present as fact that colleges had looked further than ACT scores for admission even-though such standardized tests is the current focus in education.”

  Preferring Ignorance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “We need better tests is what I'm really saying, and we need to support research to develop those better tests.”

  NPR: Sorting Through Mammogram Confusion

• “And fewer death-to-the brain tests that are valued more for grades earned by rote learning than minds truly enriched and stimulated by the subject studied.”

  The Huffington Post: Sherman Yellen: Some Grunts From a Grumpy Guy

• “The intense focus on constructing new tests is likely to make it more difficult to implement the assessment reforms students, teachers and our society need and deserve.”

  The Washington Post: Reduce standardized testing to improve accountability, school quality

• “He said, "The reason we have more students taking the tests is that we retained the students (i.e., they didn't drop out as they were previously doing) and not, as you state, because we 'draw more students.”

  The Washington Post: What Jerry Bracey would have said about Locke High

• “Biogas extracted from manure was considered the best alternative in tests which covered biogas, ethanol and biodiesel in different variants.”

  Study of Biofuel Use Shows Large Climate Benefit | Impact Lab

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