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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

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EDITORIAL: GED Testing Service must re-evaluate testing methods

By Editors January 28, 2016

Tests, tests, tests. The General Educational Development testing program has lowered its minimum passing score by five points following test takers’ complaints that the test is too difficult, NPR reported...

EDIT: Reform, not refusal, needed in standardized testing

EDIT: Reform, not refusal, needed in standardized testing

By Editors March 3, 2015

Anyone who made it to a college is classroom is way too familiar with standardized testing: every state, from Alabama to Wyoming has some version of standardized testing, and when high school hits, students...

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