That's why we have heard our chief executives affix it to everything from energy to housing and educational test scores.
The Gaokao is China's national educational test, given to 10 million secondary students to determine their rank and placement at university.
By contrast, the more complex National Assessment of Educational Progress test is designed to study average performance.
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.
Since 1993, the New York-based test prep and educational services company has been putting out a law school guide.
In its just-released book, The Best 296 Business Schools, the New York-based test prep and educational services company dubs Stanford the top school in a career rating that takes into account statistical information supplied by the schools and surveys it collected from 19, 000 students who attend the schools listed in its book.
In the same paper, his education spokesman David Willets has said he will "stand firm" against any Conservative revolt against the new policy, saying the leadership's refusal to back more educational selection was a "crucial test" for the party.
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Policy, research, statistics, planning, inspection, test- and exams, educational innovation, evaluation of diplomas, standardization of the Papiamentu language, legislation, and refresher courses.
It starts with after-school educational centers called Score, moves to the core test-prep business, on to Concord University School of Law, the nation's first online law school, and right up through BrassRing, a career development service Kaplan formed with Accel Partners and the Tribune (TRB) Co. last year.
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The National Assessment of Educational Progress does not report data on the family income of test takers.
On the NNAT, often students "don't understand what they're supposed to do, " said David Lohman, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Iowa and the co-author of a rival test, called the CogAT.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a federal civil rights complaint against the city's Specialized High School Admissions test, which decides admissions to elite programs such as Stuyvesant.
When comparing test results, remember that they are skewed by students' backgrounds--mainly their parents' educational levels.
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