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AlterNet
September 19, 2017
Thanks to that drug war impetus, we have seen the growth of a "drug testing industrial complex" consisting of "drug test manufacturers, consulting and law ... The tech giant has no known drug testing policy and its website says nothing on the issue, which is in line with the company's penchant for secrecyÃÂ ...
AlterNet
September 12, 2017
Thanks to that drug war impetus, we have seen the growth of a "drug testing industrial complex" consisting of "drug test manufacturers, consulting and law firms ... The oil and gas company requires employees, contractors and subcontractors' employees to submit to drug tests, including alcohol testing.
The Guardian
June 28, 2016
The heartbreak of losing a loved one to a drug overdose never goes away. I hope the trend toward treatment instead of punishment prevents future suffering. Tue 28 Jun 2016 07.00 EDT Last modified on Fri 8 Jul 2016 10.28 EDT. Share on Facebook ÷ Share on Twitter ÷ Share via Email; View more sharing options; Share onà...
Town Topics
June 1, 2016
One of my concerns is that there has grown up in this country what I call the testing industrial complex. Pearson [company producing the PARCC Test] is the best example — multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that makes you wonder about the tail wagging the dog.” Expressing concern about theÃÂ ...
Monthly Review
February 29, 2016
New York State's Opt Out movement was described by the New York Times as “the vanguard of an anti-testing fervor that has spread across the country. .... These forces, tied to technology and education companies like Pearson, prefer “widespread adoption of standardized products” so their corporateÃÂ ...
Orlando Sentinel
February 12, 2016
Jeb Bush's education groups, which is lobbying for the bills. But the whole concept makes parents such as Sue Woltanski, a Monroe County mother active in the group Minimize Testing Maximize Learning, worried. She's called it the "planned destruction of public school as we know it." Florida schoolsÃÂ ...
Palo Alto Online (blog)
October 30, 2014
As an independent college admissions advisor, I am often asked when is the right time to prepare for standardized testing. My area of expertise lies in the logistics behind the college application: planning a successful and enriching four-year high school career, generating a realistic list of colleges, personalÃÂ ...
AlterNet
September 19, 2017
Education · Rights ... These companies care about the quality of one's work, not the state of one's urine. ... Thanks to that drug war impetus, we have seen the growth of a "drug testing industrial complex" consisting of "drug test ... The company doesn't mention employee drug testing on its policy or career ...
AlterNet
September 12, 2017
Education · Rights ... The 10 Biggest Companies That Subject Workers to Drug Testing ... Thanks to that drug war impetus, we have seen the growth of a "drug testing industrial complex" consisting of "drug test manufacturers, ... Warren Buffett's holding company requires mouth-swab drug tests of potential ...
Town Topics
June 1, 2016
PROFILES IN EDUCATION: Jeff Lucker Looks Back on 47 Years Teaching History at PHS .... there has grown up in this country what I call the testing industrial complex. Pearson [company producing the PARCC Test] is the best example ... workbooks, and these companies start putting these things out and ...
Monthly Review
February 29, 2016
New York State should continue the tests and teacher evaluations. ... These forces, tied to technology and education companies like Pearson, prefer ..... 46 Dinesha Jones explained, “the testing industrial complex grew into a ...
Orlando Sentinel
February 12, 2016
Windy Hill Middle School is piloting a competency-based education format ... to more testing and more online instruction, to the benefit of corporations ... "The testing industrial complex is not giving up easily, working eagerly to ...
Palo Alto Online (blog)
October 30, 2014
For this article, I spoke with two reputable test prep companies and found out their thoughts on when students should begin preparing for their ...
Lawrence Journal World (blog)
September 19, 2013
Also, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation does not award semifinalist status on any purely objective basis. It's a combination of ...
Town Topics
June 1, 2016
PROFILES IN EDUCATION: Jeff Lucker Looks Back on 47 Years Teaching History at PHS .... there has grown up in this country what I call the testing industrial complex. Pearson [company producing the PARCC Test] is the best example ... workbooks, and these companies start putting these things out andÃÂ ...
Monthly Review
February 29, 2016
These forces, tied to technology and education companies like ..... 46 Dinesha Jones explained, “the testing industrial complex grew into aÃÂ ...
Orlando Sentinel
February 12, 2016
Windy Hill Middle School is piloting a competency-based education format ... to more testing and more online instruction, to the benefit of corporations ... "The testing industrial complex is not giving up easily, working eagerly toÃÂ ...
Lawrence Journal World (blog)
September 19, 2013
Also, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation does not award semifinalist status on any purely objective basis. It's a combination ofÃÂ ...
Inside Higher Ed
February 8, 2011
Imagine that, instead of a college education as we now know it, we substituted ... by companies that prepare students for the SAT, ACT, and similar tests. ... Tests such as the CLA, ETS-PP, and CAAP measure skills similar to those ..... Here is where the testing -industrial complex comes into play - for a price,ÃÂ ...
ReporterNews.com
March 28, 2017
Jeanie Forehand remembers the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) and the controversy that ensued last spring statewide, the blame falling on New Jersey-based testing company Educational Testing Services. She and herÃÂ ...
Stephenville Empire-Tribune
March 27, 2017
Glitches happened last March during the first year that New Jersey-based Educational Testing Service administered the Texas exams as part of a $280 million contract awarded in 2015.
Inside Higher Ed
March 9, 2017
Arizona and Harvard may soon have company in letting applicants submit either the GRE or the LSAT. A spokesman for the Educational Testing Service, which produces the GRE, said ETS is working with 14 law schools on validity studies to show theÃÂ ...
Pagosa Daily Post
March 6, 2017
The SAT is owned and published by the College Board, a private, not-for-profit U.S. corporation; it's developed and administered on behalf of the College Board by the Educational Testing Service. The test is intended to assess students' readiness for ...
Wichita Eagle (blog)
March 5, 2017
At the beginning of my school board tenure, Wichita also experimented with privatization, hiring the Edison Project, a national for-profit education company. Edison ... There often is no requirement of financial audits, educational testing or ...
Stock Market Daily
March 5, 2017
As a means of comparison, a number of other analysts have commented on the company recently, and ACI Worldwide Inc has secured a consensus one-year price target of $21.60, and the opening price of $20.80.
Stock Market Daily
March 2, 2017
Further, the company offers bill presentment and payment collection services to tax authorities, higher education, utilities, and health care providers, as well as provides implementation, product support, technical, educational, testing, expert ...
Voice of America
February 27, 2017
Test writers working at the Educational Testing Service are responsible for the SAT, the Test of English as a Foreign Language, or TOEFL, and the Graduate Record Exam, or GRE.
Omaha World-Herald
February 26, 2017
The institute houses the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation, which developed assessments for Kansas schools. After experiencing computer problems with the writing test under the current contractor, Nebraska is putting ... To that end ...
The Philadelphia Tribune
February 23, 2017
PITTSBURGH - The firm that owns the SAT college entrance exam is boosting security worldwide following test-stealing and other cheating in recent years.
SaintPetersBlog (blog)
February 22, 2017
PIFF was formed in late 2010 with three charter members: Allstate and Castle Key Insurance Companies, The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies, and State Farm Insurance Companies, to create a dynamic, efficient, and competitive marketplace for ...
Virginian-Pilot
February 22, 2017
In addition, it says it will alert law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad of companies and people it suspects of illegally obtaining test content.
University Herald
February 22, 2017
Only later when she returned the DVDs as instructed did she realize that she was scammed because the "company" deducted $200 from her card and more after a week later.
Florida Politics (blog)
February 22, 2017
PIFF was formed in late 2010 with three charter members: Allstate and Castle Key Insurance Companies, The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies, and State Farm Insurance Companies, to create a dynamic, efficient, and competitive marketplace for ...
WLNE-TV (ABC6)
February 22, 2017
The Educational Testing Service, of Princeton, New Jersey, administers the SAT, the Test of English as a Foreign Language and the GRE graduate school entry exam, which were targeted in the Pittsburgh-based scam.
Huntington Herald Dispatch
February 22, 2017
In addition, it says it will alert law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad of companies and people it suspects of illegally obtaining test content.
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
February 22, 2017
In addition, it says it will alert law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad of companies and people it suspects of illegally obtaining test content.
The Conversation AU
February 20, 2017
Before Mount Isa Mines was taken over by Glencore in 2013, the company admitted that Mount Isa was affected by "industrial mineralisation" (industry-speak for contamination from emissions), but also said that the contamination was partly due to natural ...
Lexology (registration)
February 17, 2017
Educational testing remains exempt as long as (a) any recorded information is completely de-identified; (b) any disclosures of information would not place the subjects at risk of criminal or civil liability or financial or reputational harm; or (c) the ...
Undark Magazine
February 14, 2017
She moved to a new town. She went back to graduate school. She met someone, got married, and helped raise the man's three children from a previous marriage.
Staunton News Leader
February 10, 2017
Our General Assembly is more likely to respond to companies that see potential profits and are willing to lobby for them. It's not that much different than the way the educational testing industry was able to get its hooks into the school budgets with ...
KXAN.com
February 1, 2017
After a year fraught with STAAR testing problems, the TEA announced in August it was fining Educational Testing Services (ETS) $5.7 million in damages and directing the company to invest another $15 million of its own money toward an action plan thatÃÂ ...
The Salem News
January 20, 2017
ACT is a registered trademark of the ACT. GRE is a registered trademark of the Educational Testing Service. Neil Bernstein has a doctorate in applied mathematics and computing, and is the director and owner of a tutoring company in Beverly. Ask a ...
Andersonian
January 18, 2017
The GRE, which stands for Graduate Record Examination, "is a test administered by ETS (Educational Testing Services), the same company that ultimately administers the SATs," according to the ETS website. This test is the one that is required to get ...
The National
January 17, 2017
And for a company chief executive, whose average age is around 50, millennials (also known as digital natives) display a fluency in the use of computers, video games, social media and mobile phones, which initially seems necessary and desirable.
Newham Recorder
January 10, 2017
These lay undetected after being sent for marking to a company called Educational Testing Service Limited (ETS). Theresa May, then Home Secretary, vowed to clamp down on the numbers of "bogus students" sitting the tests.
Hartford Courant
December 28, 2016
According to the Princeton-based Educational Testing Service, millennials are lacking a specific skill that employers routinely need: a category they define as "problem-solving in technology-rich environments.
EdSurge
December 27, 2016
INSIDER KNOWLEDGE? Reuters continues its sleuthing into the vulnerabilities afflicting the integrity of the SAT. The latest story claims that a Chinese company, New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc, has been able to provide its students withÃÂ ...
Midland Reporter-Telegram
December 26, 2016
In the first year New Jersey-based Educational Testing Service developed and administered the state STAAR exam this March, a computer glitch wiped out answers on more than 14,000 tests.
Prothom Alo (English)
December 23, 2016
But in the months since, China's largest private education company has been subverting efforts to prevent cheating, Reuters found.
CNBC
December 23, 2016
... arm of the law. New Oriental, however, is one of the best-known companies in China. ... Yu's company is also a business partner of Educational Testing Service, or ETS - the New Jersey non-profit that both owns the TOEFL and provides security for ...
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