And we have been working towards showing improvement, you know, in the scores.

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"I don't know if you saw the scores last year, but our kids didn't do too well, " said Angela Cavallone, whose son is a fifth-grader at the elementary school.

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"We played bad you know, we lost by big scores, " Malkin said.

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But we also know that sometimes the guy who scores 85 on the test will be a better worker than the guy who scores 90.

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Companies already know a tremendous amount about you in the name of generating credit scores and assessing your risk not only for your employer, but also health insurers, mortgage lenders, banks, and the like.

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Only with this tough-love approach, and a genuinely independent grading and proctoring regimen for all standardized tests, will the scores on New York City Regents Exams actually mirror what New York City students empirically know.

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What we know him for in this country is his work as a very North American composer of film and television scores.

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