The law's mandated student testing and teacher training have come with little funding, forcing many low-income schools to choose between investing in core academic offerings or paying for the new requirements, the Arizona governor said.
Meanwhile, all manner of reform advocates continue their decades-long scramble for solutions: smaller classes, longer days, better teachers, better principals, better superintendents, improved student testing, more rigorous teacher evaluation, more imaginative use of technology.
Mr. Cuomo entered the fray in January when he presented a budget with an ultimatum: He gave the state union a month to settle its lawsuit over student testing data or he would use his budgetary powers to force a statewide settlement.
Coursera, recently founded by Stanford professor Andrew Ng, will offer not only free online courses, but also a great deal of individualized instruction in the form of grading, testing, student-to-student help and certificates of completion.
Reacting to these tragedies, the NCAA has for the first time established a rule for mandatory testing of all student athletes in D-1 schools.
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The NCAA could have been equally inspired to institute genetic testing when a student athlete has a heart ill-suited for basketball like Hank Gathers at Loyola Marymount.
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Soon, Udacity will be launching in-person testing centers to verify a student's knowledge and skills.
We need such information to fulfill our vision for the house to be a flexible platform for testing and user feedback of new student-developed smarter living technologies.
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While an engineering student, your correspondent spent one summer crack-testing engine parts in an airline's workshops in Spain.
Mr. Hart found that his student had already arrived at his conservative beliefs and was testing them for weakness and strength.
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And moving toward a system of accountability and testing just pushes teachers toward uniformity and limits student exposure to other important aspects of a well-rounded education.
Alpha-testing looks back in time and allows the student to give an idea of how well a factor worked with respect to returns and other statistics.
On education, the Bloomberg administration was among the nation's forerunners in changing the culture of public schools and testing new ideas to raise test scores and student achievement in the mayor's first two terms with then-Chancellor Joel Klein.
If the safety of the student athlete is paramount, it seems better to simply demand the testing, not just for sickle cell but other life-threatening genetic markers.
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Cheating is believed to date back to early 2001, when standardized testing scores began to turn around in the 50, 000-student school district, according to the indictment.
With a great data system and assessments in place along with a large user base, the platform will be able to start to do A-B testing between different videos to be able to personalize learning for each student.
Bush has called for a testing regimen to help get lagging or failed schools on track, saying student proficiency in reading and math must be measured so parents will know whether their children are advancing equitably -- and so school administrators will know if their teachers are performing up to locally established standards.
Testing should be done outside of normal instruction so that each teacher, school, and student can be fairly measured.
The need to measure student achievement against standards has led to the development of highly sophisticated new "value-added" testing techniques.
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