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- <text id=90TT0748>
- <title>
- Mar. 26, 1990: American Notes:North Carolina
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 26, 1990 The Germans
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- NORTH CAROLINA
- Keeping Up With the News
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> With the communist world changing so rapidly, what's a
- sixth-grade social-studies student in North Carolina to do?
- After events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall outpaced many
- questions on a statewide current-events test, officials decided
- it would be too expensive to update it. Instead they admonished
- students: "Do not think about the recent governmental changes
- that have occurred in the past few months when you choose your
- answers to the questions about Eastern Europe."
- </p>
- <p> That angered teachers, who argued that the policy would
- undermine their efforts to keep students abreast of history in
- the making. After an outcry in the media, school officials
- dashed off a new version of the test to the printers in time
- for the April examination. Now a student who says Soviet
- citizens can vote for "candidates of their choice" will be
- credited with the correct answer.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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