The act requires states to test students in reading and math every year, and penalizes schools if they don't meet standards.
The law requires schools to test students for math and reading annually in third through eighth grades and once in high school.
That same year the No Child Left Behind law passed, requiring public schools to test students at least once a year, from grade three on.
The bottom line to the report is that policy discussions right now focus more on how to test students, what they should learn, how to make their schools better, and how to evaluate and improve teachers, instead of on the single biggest determiner of academic success: student motivation.
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The state has shelved a plan to test the students after losing a competitive federal grant for early-childhood programs.
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.
Soon after he won power, Mr Blair decided to abolish the maintenance grants of university students throughout the United Kingdom, and to require many students (subject to a means test) to contribute to the cost of their tuition fees.
New York City and state officials have long warned that test scores likely would drop as the state switched to a test based on new standards that force students to think more critically.
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.
The College-Level Examination Program, run by the College Board (the institution that commissions the SAT entrance test), allows students to study on their own, then take a competency test in one of 33 subjects and get college credit for passing.
Other ads targeted a different demographic, offering SAT and GRE prep services for students hoping to test into schools overseas.
Perhaps because they secured admittance to Stuyvesant based on a test, Stuyvesant students think that passing tests, by whatever means necessary, is their ticket to lifelong glory.
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The brief for the assignment was to find the best Australian medical students in the country and test them to see if they had the right stuff for a Defence Force University Scholarship.
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Kirk Proctor, of the Missouri Career Center, said the organization is looking for a way to cover the increased test cost for students participating in a GED preparation and job training program he oversees.
As long as the entrance requirements for universities and senior secondary schools remain based on the results of national exams which primarily test students' ability to memorise, parents will pile on the same pressures.
The Los Angeles teachers union agreed earlier this month to use test scores in evaluations after a protracted fight with the district, and Chicago teachers staged a seven-day strike this past fall, in part, over efforts to judge them on students' test results.
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?
The Gaokao is China's national educational test, given to 10 million secondary students to determine their rank and placement at university.
Concern over teachers cheating on behalf of students has grown as states increasingly use students' test scores to grade teachers and close schools.
To test this idea Dr Leman presented 64 students with clippings of articles that looked as though they had been taken from a newspaper.
King's quote has become a staple of conservative belief that "judged by the color of their skin" includes things such as unique appeals to certain voter groups, reserving government contracts for Hispanic-owned businesses, seeking more non-white corporate executives, or admitting black students to college with lower test scores.
Researchers from the University of Georgia recruited 51 students who performed two tasks to test self-control.
If the bill passes the House as well, it would end an old practice of allowing students to advance despite failing the test.
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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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.
For online and blended courses, LearnSmart Labs offers the closest thing available to an actual physical laboratory experience, enabling students to put the concepts they have learned in class to the virtual test without requiring access to a brick-and-mortar lab.
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Bronx Science is one of the city's eight elite public high schools that use a single test to determine admissions, drawing 3, 000 students from the five boroughs.
Earlier this week, the Bush administration moved to defuse some of the criticism by relaxing test requirements for students with limited knowledge of English.
With our help, nearly every state has set higher academic standards for public schools, and a voluntary national test is being developed to measure the progress of our students.
In a test of creativity, researchers asked 145 students to think of as many unusual uses as possible for such common items as a brick or toothpick, then divided them randomly into four groups.
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