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    Jul 18, 2008 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. MSA changes may have raised scores

    Sun reporter
    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. According to experts, the test was...

    Tags: School Examinations, Examinations, Elections, Advice, Local Elections

    2. Jun 21, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. SAT will let students pick which scores to show colleges

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
    High school students seeking to put the best shine on their college applications will soon be able to choose which of their SAT scores to share with admissions officers and which to hide, the College Board said Friday. The new policy, starting with the...

    Tags: School Examinations, Colleges and Universities

    3. May 27, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. University to drop required ACT, SAT

    Associated Press
    RALEIGH, N.C. — Wake Forest University will no longer require applicants to take the SAT and ACT exams, boosting a movement to lessen the importance of standardized tests in college admissions. The Winston-Salem school, which admitted just 38...

    Tags: School Examinations, Colleges and Universities

    4. Mar 29, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Letters to the editor

    Carwash industry needs cleaning up Re "Workers getting soaked at Southland carwashes," March 23 Congratulations on your front-page expose of the shameful exploitation of illegal immigrant carwash employees. We taxpayers must demand more (bilingual)...

    Tags: Animals, George Bush, Kensington, Slavery, Migration

    5. Mar 26, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Don't judge teachers by test scores

    In her Op-Ed article, "Put teachers to the test," Camille Esch writes that "the old evaluation system that ignores student achievement and finds virtually all teachers 'satisfactory' simply sets the bar too low." Although I agree with her, and with all...

    Tags: Academic Progress, School Examinations, John Keats

    6. Aug 24, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. What's eating LAUSD?

    Today, Tokofsky and Downtown Magnets High School junior Jordan Senteno navigate the obstacles to high-quality schooling. Thursday they debated readin', writin' and relevance; Wednesday they focused on social promotion; Tuesday the topic was class size;...

    Tags: Health Insurance, Elections, Charter Schools, Prisons, Culture

    7. Feb 19, 2007 |Story| South Florida Entertainment

  7. Conquering School Anxiety & Test Stress

    South Florida Parenting
    What parent hasn't heard their child complain of a stomachache, headache or just generally not feeling well on a school morning, only to learn later that there was more to these physical symptoms than Tylenol or Pepto-Bismol could cure? Though the...

    Tags: Illnesses, School Examinations, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Coconut Creek, Jack Gordon

    8. Nov 27, 2000 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Drooping test scores spur school exodus

    Sun Staff
    Second of three articles As the Columbia parents looked on protectively through the morning fog, their children clambered onto the yellow school bus. It seemed an ordinary bus, except it took a strange turn - toward a new public school in rural Fulton,...

    Tags: Elementary Schools, James Rouse, Moving, Minority Groups, National or Ethnic Minorities

    9. May 16, 2004 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  9. CLOSING THE GAP: Blacks and whites still show unequal academic achievement

    Integrating Virginia's public schools after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision took a generation of struggle. But once it happened, educators noted an alarming pattern: Black students simply weren't keeping up with white students. The...

    Tags: Elementary Schools, Colleges and Universities, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Minority Groups, National or Ethnic Minorities

    10. Oct 20, 2000 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  10. mcall.com DataSearch -- Money Matters

    Of The Morning Call
    When it comes to student perfomance on standardized tests, money matters. An analysis of 35 school districts in The Morning Call's circulation area showed that the more money a district spent on per-pupil instruction the better the results on the...

    Tags: Elementary Schools, Allentown, Unions, Monroe County (Pennsylvania), Economic Policy

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