Some states and districts are looking to adopt a system like the one in Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, where the district created exams for every subject at every grade five years ago in an effort to award merit pay to teachers.
One high-profile deal involves its purchase in late 2012 of a grade-A office and five-star hotel complex in downtown Shanghai from a distressed local developer.
In poorer states, one child in five drops out of school before sixth grade, compared with fewer than one in ten in richer states.
In 2011, Castellano finished as one of the top five jockeys in the nation, with 11 Grade 1 victories, more than any other rider that year.
Arran first made headlines in 2001 when, at five years old, he gained the highest grade possible in the foundation maths paper.
It achieved a five-star grade in aeronautical, mechanical and manufacturing engineering.
This means that more than two in five children who start school will not reach the last grade of primary education.
Arvind's bee preparation began five years ago, before he was even in fifth grade the year students become eligible to compete in New York City's spelling bee.
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Ofqual says across all the exams, about one in five requests for re-marks led to a new grade being given and that was similar to last year.
In the midst of the mayhem, they must also shut down an unexpected threat in the nick of time - prevent five tons of weapons-grade plutonium from falling into the wrong hands.
El Salvador is one of only five countries in all of Latin America with an investment-grade economy, and after more than 15 years of conservative, market-oriented political leadership, it is starting to build a viable and competitive industrial and service sector.
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The "ethyl in my gasoline, " as he once described it, was an intense pride in achievement, something that first overtook him at the end of the first week of first grade when his teacher in the one-room schoolhouse in Possum Hollow praised him for mastering the alphabet in five days.
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