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Suppose that at the end of term, the average standardized test score for the disadvantaged students is 400 and the standardized test score for the regular students is 600.
Suppose that at the end of term, the average standardized test score for the disadvantaged students is 450 and the standardized test score for the regular students is 650.
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.
Tamim looked as though he was going to score a Test century before the lunch interval, becoming only the fifth batsman to do so, after Australians Victor Trumper, Charles Macartney and Don Bradman, and Pakistan's Majid Khan.
The game will always be remembered as Brian Lara's match - when the Trinidadian left-hander despatched England's bowlers to all four corners of the Antigua Recreation Ground on the way to scoring 375 - at the time, the highest individual score in Test history.
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If someone takes the test on one day and scores high, then takes the test a week later and receives a low score, the test is probably not very reliable.
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Cook's 235 not out was the sixth best Ashes score by an Englishman and he also surpassed Sir Don Bradman for the highest Test score at the Gabba.
Anderson's dream day began with his highest Test score (28) in a 76 stand with Stuart Broad, who hit a first Test fifty as England added 91 to reach 364.
Anderson had earlier hit his highest Test score (28) in a 76 stand with Stuart Broad, who hit a first Test fifty as England, who lead the three-match series 1-0, added 91 to reach 364.
He scored in both Tests against the world champions, leaving previous IRB Player of the Year winner Bryan Habana flat on his back in the first Test before bamboozling five Springboks to score in the Second Test in Pretoria.
The 21-year-old Broad, playing on his home ground, was also pleased to bag his highest Test score, making 64 before being bowled by Chris Martin.
Tendulkar danced down the track to hit the left-arm spin of Daniel Vettori through mid-on for a boundary to surpass his previous highest Test score.
Ravi Bopara was named as England's man of the series after becoming only the fifth batsman to score three successive Test hundreds for his country.
The former skipper hopes to score a 10th Test century in the deciding match in Napier, in what will be his last match before quitting internationals.
But South Africa were caught unawares by Harmison, whose previous highest Test score was 42, and he passed that by crashing Nel past backward point for four.
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Amla reached his 150 off 331 balls with 21 fours, passing his previous highest Test score of 149, which came against the same opponents in Cape Town in 2005-07.
With three figures on the horizon, Cook's lack of footwork denied him an opportunity to score his eighth Test century when he was superbly caught by Kallis off Nel for 76.
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Bravo also had an escape on 46 when he was dropped by a diving Hodge at square-leg off Brett Lee and made the most of it to score his score a second Test hundred in as many games.
The indefatigable Trott brought up his second Test score in excess of 150 as wickets tumbled around him, with the ever-persistent Peter Siddle rewarded for a spirited bowling display with figures of 6-75, his fourth five-wicket haul in Test cricket.
Only a century in a Sheffield Shield match last week secured the 35-year-old's test spot after a run of poor form in the longer form of the game and the lefthander responded with only his third 50-plus Test score since his 134 against Pakistan in January.
Khawaja was caught by Jonathan Trott at square-leg, and that was the last act of a day which had seen Shane Watson (45) make yet another start without registering a major score, while Phillip Hughes (31) compiled his best score in eight Test innings against England.
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Kallis was three short of his Test best score of 189 when edging Oram to Brendon McCullum to end a 262-ball effort - his 28th Test century.
Cook was one of only two players to score 30-plus in England's first innings in the fourth Test - a score he matched in the second innings - but despite a knock of 95 at Lord's, he averages only 28.6 in the series.
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