2008 Maryland School Assessment

July 18, 2008

MSA changes may have raised scores

State education officials acknowledged yesterday for the first time that they had changed the Maryland School Assessment this year in a way that experts say contributed to an unusually large rise in student test scores.

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William Polk Carey, donor to Hopkins and UM, dies

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