Texas to Target Standardized-Test Cheats
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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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AUSTIN -- The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality released a draft report today that makes several recommendations aimed at improving the agency&#39;s ability to enforce environmental laws.
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President Bush is beginning his push to require high school seniors to take the math and reading tests now required of younger students under the No Child Left Behind law, the most ambitious item on the president's slate of second-term education proposals.
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Texas school districts would be required to include the body mass index of students as part of their regular report cards under a bill introduced Tuesday by a lawmaker seeking to link healthy minds with healthy bodies.
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Maryland school officials proudly noted last week that more than 90 percent of students in the Class of 2009 expected to earn a diploma had passed one of four tests required to graduate. But testing data provided to The Washington Post by local school systems indicate that the number of students who...
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U.S. officials gave employers new  tools on Tuesday to try to determine whether a degree comes  from a bogus "diploma mill" or a genuine school of higher  education.
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President Felipe Calderon proposed Monday that Mexico test thousands of students in public schools for drugs as part of the nation's fight against drug trafficking.
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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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Ten-year-old Peter Choi said he prefers playing dodgeball to crunching out abdominal curl-ups. But the modified sit-ups that the fifth-grader at Arapaho Classical Magnet School says sometimes make his stomach hurt are here to stay, part of the statewide physical fitness test introduced Thursday by the Texas Education Agency.
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If Gov. Rick Perry approves a bill sent to him Monday, Texas public high school athletes would face mandatory random steroid testing.
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Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn&#39;s reputation as a watchdog for the health and education of Texas children is summed up in a needlepoint decoration in her office: &quot;One
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Software sends SAT prep questions to your child's handset--and lets you check to see whether they're getting the answers right.
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Math and reading scores are rising in some states, but not as fast as envisioned under the No Child Left Behind law, a nonpartisan education group says.
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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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Reaction has been pouring on an Education Department pilot program to rate city teachers based on how well they taught their students to do on standardized tests in a given year.
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An independent watchdog is being launched in England to counter criticism that exams are getting easier.
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The Educational Testing Service has developed a new test that it says can assess technology literacy.