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School test scores and graduation rates are improving but still aren't great.
But early mistakes were inevitable in a government that raised so many expectations, and it would be unfair to judge Ms Bachelet on one school test.
If, as researchers have suggested, some schools in London have a majority of children being privately coached, then how reliable are school test results as an indicator of their teaching quality?
Plenty of my school fellows did just OK in high school, went to second-rank universities, where they majored in having a good time, crammed for the LSAT (law school test) and squeezed into second-rank law schools or business schools.
Parents in Washington state and New York City have kept kids home from school on test day in protest.
Decades after the event, nearly half of those who did not pass the grammar school entry test said it brought back negative emotions.
This test, which relies on abstract spatial thinking, will now account for about two-thirds of the score, while the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT) will be about a third.
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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.
Because the rankings consider the grade-point averages and scores on the Law School Admissions Test, schools are pulling out the stops to make sure the highest-caliber students are applying and matriculating.
Apparently this is scaring off at least some potential applicants: the number of people taking the Law School Admissions Test declined by 9.6% during the 2010-2011 academic year, to 155, 050, from 171, 500 in the previous year, according to the Law School Admission Council.
He set about making a wind tunnel in his garage and placed small shields on toy school buses to test them.
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Seth Dewboys travels west from a mostly white Louisville, Kentucky, neighborhood to an inner-city school with high test scores and a racially mixed student body.
Under Vallas, elementary school reading and math test scores, though still low, are at seven-year highs.
If you do well on a test in school, you can attribute your success to a number of factors.
Chosen for reasons of self-esteem and motivation, the 13-15-year-olds will be mentored by test pilots from the Empire Test Pilot School.
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He hired a school parent as a vegetarian chef to develop the menu and described his school as the vegetarian test kitchen for the city.
To this day, he said he still has dreams that he's working for O'Reilly, much like adults might dream they are missing a math test in school.
It's clear that systems that gauge student, teacher and school performance on standardized test scores put intense pressure on those results and inevitably tempt people to finagle them.
New York's school system is letting him test a couple of them on its children.
He added that the School of Management accepts GRE test-takers at the same rate as it accepts GMAT-submitting applicants.
School officials are awaiting the test results of the children.
The report said Mr Roche had been Shuttleworth's chief pilot between 2009 and 2010 and was a graduate of the Empire Test Pilots' School, the first organisation of its kind in the world.
There was also strong opposition to a number of other proposals, including whole-school performance bonuses based on test and exam results (76% disagreed with this) and the "fast-tracking" of bright graduates onto higher salaries (54% were opposed).
Is it better to pay more up front to build a school that will stand the test of time or is it more realistic in terms of the limited funds available to build what they can now?
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On the first day of school earlier this month, Mr. Bloomberg announced a new text-messaging system that allows parents to receive reminders about things such as school-lunch menus, test and report-card dates, as well as applications for free and reduced-price lunch.
The symbol of the test-pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert, where Mr Armstrong spent years testing military jets, flying the X-15 at 4, 000mph to the very edge of the atmosphere, is a slide rule over a stylised aircraft.
There are certainly people who fall into different camps on certain issues, for example people who want to use pay for performance based on test scores, school-choice advocates, people who think reading should be taught by using phonics, people who think there should be no homework, and on and on and on.
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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It's quite a draw for B-school applicants in Asia, attracting more of them (as measured by the number that have sent in their admission test scores) than any other school on the planet outside Harvard.
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