Scores Rise Since 'No Child' Signed
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The nation's students have performed significantly better on state reading and math tests since President Bush signed his landmark education initiative into law five years ago, according to a major independent study released yesterday.
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More children in the United States are living in a household with at least one working parent and fewer teens than ever are having babies, the annual federal report on children has found.
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Since the president signed No Child Left Behind, the law has imposed changes on education, but it has also faced a backlash.
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Average scores on the ACT college entrance exam rose for the first time in seven years, with the high school class of 2004 improving modestly across all subjects and most ethnic groups.
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States want children to be a year older when they enter school. This could lead to better test scores â and more inequality.
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A campaign launched Monday to extend the globally popular Harry Potter series received a boost after author J.K. Rowling declared &quot;never say never&quot; about writing another book.
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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
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National Statistics explains the UK absence from the latest test results of 15-year-olds in 40 countries.
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First-time caesarean section births for  women with no identified medical risks or complications have  risen sharply in the United States, according to research  published on Friday.
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A commission proposed a wide-reaching expansion of the No Child Left Behind law yesterday that would for the first time require schools to ensure that all seniors are proficient in reading and math and hold schools accountable for raising test scores in science by 2014.
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Northern Ireland's latest A level results are revealed and, as predicted, they are better than ever.
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The number of children and young adolescents being diagnosed with A.C.L. tears has been soaring recently.
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LONG BEACH, N.Y. - Of 1.4 million high-schoolers who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test in 2004, fewer than 1,000 scored a perfect 1600.
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Children of Men, starring Clive Owen, tops the UK and Ireland box office chart on its first weekend on release.
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KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka -- The 4-month-old boy dubbed ''Baby 81" now has a name, Abilass, and a birth date, Oct. 19, and two loving parents who can't wait to get him back.
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Over 4,000 children under 14 have attempted to take their own lives in the past year, claim new figures
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A new national &quot;report card&quot; for public and private colleges gives Massachusetts top marks for the number of its students who go to college and for how well