National teacher testing has become a multi-million dollar business. ... Cost may range for one test from $25 to $140 dollars. ... But can a test determine whether or not the person will be an effective teacher? ... "In order to prepare the nation's children for the 21st century, teachers must have the latest knowledge and the best techniques" (Kentucky"). ... In KERA [Kentucky Educational Reform Act] teacher competency is addressed. ...

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Literacy tests were set up and African Americans had to pass a test consisting of reading and writing to allow them to vote. ... The State of Louisiana, that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. ... The judge at the trial, John Howard Ferguson, had previously declared the Separate Car Act "unconstitutional on trains that traveled through several states." ... The court defended themselves by saying they are only preparing black kids for a segregated nation by putting them in segregated schools. ... Segregation later came to an end for Afric...

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Currently, thirty-one states have criminalized explicitly the act of assisted suicide . ... Supreme Court has not reviewed a physician-assisted suicide case, which would create precedent, constitutes a dilemma for the state courts in that there is no uniform test or ruling by which to decide. ... This is clear due to the thirty-one states which have already incorporated the act into their penal codes as being illegal. ... At the time of the publication of this article, California, Washington, Oregon, and Michigan were preparing or has already proposed general election initiatives which would p...

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