The study looking at projects in Durham, Newham and Wolverhampton found that free meals for all helped to close the gap in test results between rich and poor pupils.

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Any journalist familiar with the risk assessment protocols used by government agencies should have spotted the credibility gap between the test and the claim.

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But by 2012, city children in third and fourth-grades had narrowed the test-score gap on math with their peers throughout the state but fell a few points short of pulling even.

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Test matches were revived after a 10-year gap in 1999 when Pakistan toured India.

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Yet this initiative, intended to provide a test bed that can double as a stop-gap defensive capability, is clearly inadequate.

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It began offering maternity at Gap.com in 2000 and Oldnavy.com in 2001, as a way to test the concept without giving up valuable square footage.

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Schools nationwide are lengthening school hours, piling homework on burdened kids and cramming technology into classrooms with the goal of improving test scores as politicians intensify the debate with educators demanding measures be taken to close the knowledge gap between the United States, Asia and Europe.

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