Only about 45% of elementary students passed state reading exams last year, and 33% passed the math test.
This must be a little like the pioneering days of steam or aviation: the earliest creations have passed the first credibility test and now the big powers of industry are getting interested.
This was Dayton's first real test, a real challenge on several fronts, and I believe that we passed the test, but it wasn't easy.
With 55 million units sold and nearly 25 million app downloads to date, the iPad has clearly passed the test as a transformative business tool and helped spark a revolutionary shift in the mobile workforce.
He told reporters two weeks ago that he had nothing to do with the attacks, had never worked with anthrax and had been told by the FBI that he had passed a polygraph test and was not a suspect.
The United Arab Emirates businessman passed the Premier League 'fit and proper person' test in July but the ownership deal has yet to go through.
He had not passed the driving test and was to give up his license.
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As a result, Rachel took a staff job with less responsibility and status, but that passed the happiness test.
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Supporters mounted a renewed push this year, and the Senate vote was seen as the critical test after the House easily passed the bill.
The Michigan lab was created to set standards and test vehicles after the 1970 Clean Air Act was passed.
Hoggard passed 200 Test wickets during the recent series against Sri Lanka and is currently fifth in the LG ICC Test list, with only Muttiah Muralitharan, Makhaya Ntini, Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath ahead of him.
But the Swansea front three of Richards, Murphy and James Thomas, who passed a late fitness test, were superb, causing the visitors no end of problems.
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Al Faraj, 40, a property developer in the Middle East has already passed the Premier League's fit and proper test.
Pompey announced on 21 July they have agreed in principle to a takeover by United Arab Emirates tycoon Sulaiman Al Fahim after the 32-year-old passed the Premier League's fit and proper person test.
Orion has just passed its preliminary design review and a test version of the Ares 1 stands ready at the Kennedy Space Centre for a demonstration flight in October.
He said it was worrying that people could take their driving test in a smaller vehicle but then buy a van which "is five, six times bigger than the car you've passed your test in, and you can just jump in and drive away, having no experience of driving a van at all".
In a YouGov commissioned survey of more than 2, 000 people in the country, only 33% correctly answered legal questions about uploading copyrighted content like photos or song lyrics to their blog or Facebook page, 42% passed a test on defaming others on social media and 38% knew the legalities of discussing super injunctions on social media sites like Twitter.
As expected, the four UK banks passed the test - Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group.
He then passed a second test he took voluntarily, the ESPN report stated, and is now appealing the failed test, as his statement indicated.
London's transport network has passed its first big test of the Games: the combination of commuters and Games spectators during Monday's two rush hours.
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Mr Boyton, who had just passed his driving test, had recently got a job at an estate agents and the other boys were students.
Clive Bates from Action on Smoking and Health said the government's backing of the Bill meant it had passed an "acid test of credibility".
Glover's takeover was initially agreed last week but was subject to the RFL's final written confirmation that he had passed a fit and proper person test.
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Because every one of them have passed what is called the Knowledge: a test of the ability to memorize and spatially navigate every one of those 25, 000 streets.
The visitors went into the match knowing that victory would see them unseat India as the world's number one Test nation after their resounding win in the first Test, and received a pre-match boost when Smith was passed fit to play despite a finger injury.
If the test is passed, this slowdown could prove short, the subsequent recovery strong and fruitful.
D. and it takes a really gripping book for me to make it through, but all of these passed the test!
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Amex passed the test, which among other things assumed a dramatic 50% drop in equity markets and 21% decline in home prices, with a 10.8% capital ratio, meaning it is well capitalized to weather an economic storm.
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