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Transcript: STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN BILL GOODLING (R-PA) ON NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL REPORT ON DEVELOPMENT OF THE VOLUNTARY NATIONAL
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- July 15, 1998
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 15,1998
CONTACT: Jay Diskey or Bill McCarthy 202/225-4527
STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN BILL GOODLING (R-PA) ON NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
REPORT ON DEVELOPMENT OF THE VOLUNTARY NATIONAL TESTS
Goodling: "The tests have the potential to be invalid, unreliable
& racially
biased."
"This week Congress learned that the Clinton Administration's national
tests are technically unsound. According to a National Research Council
report to Secretary of Education Richard Riley, development of the
tests
is moving too quickly and because of it, the tests have the potential
to
be invalid, unreliable and racially biased. "The National ...