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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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 Scottish Charity Regulator said that in its evaluation, St George's School for Girls, Fettes College and St Columba's School had failed to pass the test.
Bethany Ruane, who runs adult education for the Cattaraugus Allegany BOCES, said she was offering students who are no longer in school an opportunity to take the test over the next few weeks.
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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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Feinberg knows that she and the school face tremendous pressure to improve the test scores of the city's most challenging students.
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.
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.
Just one month later at Stuyvesant high school, students used cell phones to share test questions and answers on the 2012 Regents exams, a test used by New York State to evaluate core subjects.
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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.
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.
Eleven years ago Ronald Stevens, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the UCLA School of Medicine, got fed up trying to test his medical students' diagnostic skills with paper and pencil.
The gist is simple: it indicates how well a school has brought on pupils from one test level to another.
So, anyone up for making high school students pass a civic literacy test before being allowed to graduate?
To qualify for federal funding, the state is forcing the city and other school districts to judge teacher performance based in part on student test scores.
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.
Many of my peers at my public high school were talented and had the grades and test scores to attend four-year universities and colleges, but lacked the guidance or resources to navigate the admissions process.
Cheating rates rise through middle school and by high school, 51% of students admit to cheating on a test in the past year, and 74% say they have copied another student's homework, according to a 2012 survey of 23, 000 high-school students by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, in Los Angeles, a nonprofit character-education organization.
If you do well on a test in school, you can attribute your success to a number of factors.
Though it is still early, the school says its first survey of the test group already points to high satisfaction with the device.
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High school students with high grades and excellent test scores are likely to go to good schools and earn high returns on their investment, says Mr. Vedder.
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The Massachusetts Board of Education, for example, fearing most students would flunk, has voted to set low passing scores--just above failing--for a new test students must take to graduate from high school.
As a parent of a 15-year-old who goes to Stuyvesant, a test-in public high school with a rigorous curriculum and frequent tests, I am ambivalent about the notion that schools across the country would adopt yet more tests.
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Last year, researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Bender Institute of Neuroimaging in Germany put meditation to the test on those who had never practiced it.
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Officials at ETS, which is the nonprofit organization that administers the SAT, along with high school and college administrators, will have access to a new database containing test-takers' photos and identification information.
Is it not unreasonable, in an age of trillion dollar budget deficits, to deny funds to students whose high school records, previous college performance, or test scores suggest have little likelihood of success?
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.
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.
The 1984 act reformed the schools, boosting average Scholastic Aptitude Test scores and the proportion of high school graduates continuing on to college.
At Public School 169 in Queens, third-graders performed "Test Me Maybe" to the tune of "Call Me Maybe" for Walcott on Friday.
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