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IP: Re: 8th grade education
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:47:38 -0400
X-Mailer: emacs 20.6.1 (via feedmail 8 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.6.1 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:43:40 -0400 From: Howard Melman <howard () silverstream com> To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Re: IP: 8th grade education http://www.snopes2.com/spoons/document/1895exam.htm [...] [All of this is academic, however,] because the test reproduced above isn't a test for students at all -- it's a certification exam for teachers. In a 1977 article published in The English Journal, John W. Velz reproduced similar certification examination questions prepared by the Examiners of Teachers for the Public Schools in Zanesville, Ohio, in the late 1870s. Howard
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