With no evaluation deal in place, the city will revert to its previous system of grading teachers on the up-or-down scale.

WSJ: State Warns School Aid Is at Stake

He said the computerized version, which students are passing at higher rates than the paper version in pilot sites, will be cheaper to administer because states will no longer have to pick up the tab for things like grading the exam.

WSJ: Some states dropping GED as test price spikes

Before other publications did, FORBES developed an increasingly sophisticated system of grading the long-term performance of funds, in both up and down markets.

FORBES: James W. Michaels