IP: Re: 8th grade education

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> 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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