But Stephen Sireci, director of the Center for Educational Assessment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, agreed with the city's solution.
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The workshops, developed collaboratively by UNESCO, Secretariat of the Pacific Board for Educational Assessment (SPBEA) and UNICEF, cover many aspects of teacher education and professional development programmes.
The first workshop will run in conjunction with the Secretariat for the Pacific Board for Educational Assessment (SPBEA) and local education officials will look at the PPSSP and develop standards for principals that are relevant for each particular country.
By contrast, the more complex National Assessment of Educational Progress test is designed to study average performance.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress does not report data on the family income of test takers.
Our 2005 science scores, released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), were even more shocking.
Yet we are sorely lacking in knowledge about our past, as shown by a recent National Assessment of Educational Progress.
To understand the results of this year's National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, you have to look at the bigger picture.
Since then, however, substantial data have become available, most notably those of the federally sponsored National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP.
Public high school graduation rates peaked around 1970, and data show that reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) fell slightly between 1992 and 2008.
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Private school students do better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, but the gap between average scores is about the same at ages 13 and 17 as at 9.
As of 2010, according to the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress, only 13 percent of high school seniors and 18 percent of eighth graders had a proficient knowledge of American history.
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However, by the time they reach middle school, only 32% are at or above a proficient level in math, according to the 2007 Nation's Report Card by National Assessment of Educational Progress, and they fall behind internationally.
However, it is also true, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, that test score gaps between 12th-grade blacks and whites with highly educated parents -- parents with 16 or more years of schooling -- are greater than test score gaps between 12th-grade blacks and whites whose parents have less education.
According to FranNet , a company that offers a free educational process and personal franchise assessment to match individuals with franchise opportunities, of nearly 1, 300 franchisee placements the company made between 2006 and 2010, 92 percent were in business after two years, compared to 64 percent of other small businesses.
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In the OECD's annual study of educational performance, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), girls score better in reading in all countries even at primary level, and much better by the time they are 15.
Mercer, a consulting firm, publishes a ranking of big cities each year based on an assessment of about 40 factors falling into ten categories (political, economic, cultural, medical, educational, public-service, recreational, consumer-goods, housing and environmental).
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