The Costs of Legislated Minimum Competency Requirements.

Anderson, Barry D.; Lesser, Philip

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Publication Date: 1978

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The Costs of Legislated Minimum Competency Requirements

Anderson, Barry D.; Lesser, Philip

Phi Delta Kappan, 59, 9, 606-8, May 78

Discusses the costs of developing, administering, and regulating state competency tests as well as of the compensatory programs that the tests will make necessary, and then suggests five ways of reducing these costs. (IRT)

Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Costs, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing, State Legislation, Testing Programs

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