You've got ideas that are showing concrete results in improvement, not in absolute test scores, but in the progress that that school is making, we're going to fund those improvements.

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Math game developer Sokikon, for example, references U.S. Department of Education-funded research correlating its games to progress in test scores and motivation to learn math (up to 15% improvement in one Arizona classroom).

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The researchers didn't test whether echinacea alleviates colds already in progress.

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This is in contrast to test and exam results in the United Kingdom, which have tended to show ongoing progress - to the extent that GCSE results in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, published this week, have improved for 12 consecutive years.

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Whichever theory you think is right, with the No Glass Ceilings motif index, which returned 10.1% year to date, you get a litmus test for this tectonic sociological shift occurring in our society and economy through the progress of 19 companies currently headed by female chief executives.

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"We continued our work from Thursday and made some good progress, " he told reporters ahead of the next test session in Barcelona on February 19.

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Injuries hampered his progress before he finally made his Test debut against India at Lord's in 2007 - the series was his first and last until now.

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In a test where players had four minutes to shoot 100 enemies, calmer participants would progress normally, but if they got nervous, the game would speed up and they would have less time to shoot.

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