Rethink standardized tests
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Adding to the deluge of confusing and often contradictory test data, results from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) have arrived.
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Students should be able to make their university choices after their A-level results, a report has found. Could a new system work?
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The most physically fit group of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders tend to score highest on an academic test known as the Illinois Standard Achievement Test, a group of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reports.
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True or false? Charter schools are not always the silver bullet for boosting student achievement that some politicians and educators have portrayed them to be.
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How happy are you? Take out test and find out
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The national test of student math skills is filled with easy questions, raising doubts about recent gains in achievement tests, a study contends.
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A slight decline in scores made headlines, but the real story is that the new test is closing the gender and income gap
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Calls for a national qualifying exam as research shows wide variations in graduates' performance
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The state education agency is launching an effort to catch cheating on standardized tests, officials announced Monday.
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Science education in U.S. elementary  and middle schools is overly broad and superficial, according  to a government report issued on Thursday that also faults  science curricula for assuming children are simplistic  thinkers.
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The report on the failures in this year's English tests is highly critical.
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&#39;It&#39;s really the only way we have to determine how the United States as a nation is doing in preparing its children and its students in math and science.
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Some 2,500 teachers in the city are being measured on how much their students improve on standardized tests.
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Think hours of slogging are helping your child make the grade? Think again
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A new, independent report card flunks America's colleges in a key subject for many students and parents: affordability.    While noting progress in areas such as student preparation, the biennial study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education drops the country to an "F" in affordability from the "D" it received in the nonprofit group's report two years ago...
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The company that provides standardized tests to Virginia's schoolchildren will add staff and upgrade technology to help prevent technical glitches such as those that recently forced thousands of students to retake online exams, officials said yesterday.
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American eighth-graders improved their math and science scores on an international test last year, but fourth-graders&#39; scores were flat and all students