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- Shortcomings Noted for State Exit Exams
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- Though more than half the nation?s public high school students must pass exit exams to graduate, high scores on the tests don?t necessarily translate into adequate preparation, concludes a report. more...
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- Texas to Reduce Amount of Field-Testing for Exams
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- The Texas Education Agency will reduce the amount of field-testing for state exams in public schools this year in response to complaints that the rough-draft exams take up too much time. more...
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- Md. Exit Exams Will Be Multiple Choice Only
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- State plans to eliminate written-response questions from its high school exit exams to address long-standing complaints about how slowly test results are processed. more...
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- Blacks in suburbs failing Md. exams
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- Poor results at some high schools called surprising An alarming pattern of failure is surfacing: Minority students, especially African-Americans, are struggling to pass the exams more...
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- Retests for lost exams planned
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- SALISBURY -- For 18-year-old Luke Terrell -- who completed four Advanced Placement exams in biology, English, psychology and European history -- receiving his scores was to be the highlight of the season. more...
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- Nebraska Moves to Statewide Reading, Math Exams
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- The exams would supplement?and could eventually compete with?the state?s unique patchwork of district-level assessments. more...
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- Texas Passes Bill to Require End-of-Course Exams
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- The legislature passed a number of other K-12 education-related measures, including an ambitious steroid-testing program for high school athletes. more...
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- College entrance exams make or break in China
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- BEIJING - Cui Weiping had become an adept cotton farmer and tractor driver in a bleak east China village in 1977 when college entrance exams were restored after the 10-year Cultural Revolution. It was a profound turning point in my life, said 51-year-old Cui, now a professor at the Beijing Film Academy. more...
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- Educators Repeatedly Flunk Required Exams
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- Testing is a part of life. Most professions require some sort of test and you only get so many tries. But a News Station Investigation shows - when it comes to teaching or running a school, for thousands of North Texas educators its try, try and try again?and again. more...
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- Exams cost too much, say colleges
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- Colleges complain they are spending more money on exam entries than on heating or cleaning. The Association of Colleges says the cost of entering students for exams has gone up by 36% in the past three years. more...
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