Barry Scheck, a director of the Innocence Project at Cardozo School of Law, which represents Mr. Osborne, said he could not understand why prosecutors in Alaska have opposed testing.
But it's uncertain if the change will actually reduce the number of DOE employees taking polygraphs, says Jeff Colvin, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and a leader of the Society of Professional Scientists and Engineers, which has opposed testing.
The players union strenuously opposes testing for steroids, so immediate action is not possible.
About a quarter of all colleges nationwide no longer require standardized tests, according to the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, which is based in Cambridge, Mass., and opposes testing.
But it oversimplifies the issue by presenting it as driven mainly by the resentment of upper-middle-class suburbanites who oppose testing because they consider their own "standards" superior.
Dennis Doros; his wife, Amy Heller; and their son, Adam, a senior at Old Tappan, all of whom oppose testing, approached the microphones in front of the board clutching printouts of a post Ms. Fable had written on a private Facebook page.
"How do we help them stay out of trouble, stay off drugs, and still respect their privacy and teach them about their constitutional rights?" said Julie Underwood, general counsel for the National School Boards Association, which helped defend the Oklahoma policy but opposes testing for all students as in Lockney and another small Texas town, Sundown, southwest of Lubbock.
Hecker, who opposes testing, believes testing would be necessary.
Campaigners set up camp during the summer to oppose test drilling for oil, amid fears it would lead to fracking.
A parish council has explained why it did not oppose test drilling for oil in a West Sussex village where protesters have gathered for 16 days.
Indeed, this narrow definition of student achievement is employed by all sides of reform, including those who oppose tests (but who can't help citing test scores when the opportunity comes along to bash an opponent).
