"Cuban Litmus Test" (editorial, April 18) correctly calls on Latin American nations to stop indulging the repressive behavior of Fidel Castro's regime.
Brent Staples accurately states that the SAT may be only "one element among many in predicting college performance" ("The Coming Backlash Against 'the Big Test,' " Editorial Observer, July 10).
"A Bad Test" (editorial, April 22) describes a New Haven Fire Department promotion exam that was "discriminatory" only in that some groups did better than others.
Re "Thinning the Milk Does Not Mean Thinning the Child" (Week in Review, Feb. 12) and "Low-Fat Diets Flub a Test" (editorial, Feb. 9): Reports about the Women's Health Initiative study may leave people thinking that very low-fat diets are impossible to follow and not worth doing.
For the past six months or so, Loverly has been testing editorial content on the website with great success — the company says that 20percentt of the site's traffic comes from editorial content.
But in one of the first tests of editorial independence under Murdoch ownership, The Review's editor, Hugh Restall, has acknowledged getting "cold feet" about publishing a review of a book that is critical of Mr. Murdoch's business forays into China in the 1990s.
"Service reviews, public value tests, the editorial complaints process have all worked well in holding the BBC to account in a way it never was before, and in making sure there's a structure to take account of the views of audiences whether it's the research and formal consultations".
In your call for a reduced emphasis on testing ("The Trouble With Testing Mania," editorial, July 14), you refer to a review of teacher education programs by the National Council on Teacher Quality, noting that, in contrast to Finland, the United States "has an abysmal system of teacher preparation".
Diseases used to test for editorial bias were selected by the total number of times they appeared in the HealthMap database.
C9 Business Digest C1 EDITORIAL A16-17 Editorials: Next test for finance reform; the White House and the Mideast; no pay, no work in Albany.
