当我们迁回纽约时，两个孩子分别是9岁和11岁，最早在一所比较前卫的学校里上学，这里没有真正的考试，不打分，甚至连年度音乐剧的面试都没有。

When we moved back to New York City, my children, then 9 and 11, started at a progressive school with no real tests, no grades, not even auditions for the annual school musical.

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在联邦的《不能让一个孩子掉队法》下，学校被要求在考试上显示出“适当的年度进步”，否则就要面临被关闭的危险。

Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, schools are required to show "adequate yearly progress" on tests or face being shut down.

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尽管评估过程我们使用了多重的评定标准，但学校的等级主要仍是依学生在年度标准化考试中的进步程度来定的。

While several criteria were used, much of a school's grade was determined by whether students' performance on standardized state tests showed annual improvement.

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