Researchersin theNetherlandsreportthatchildrenwhoget more exercise, whetheratschoolor on their own, tend to have higherGPAs and betterscoresonstandardizedtests.
He says this year the school could have filled its 2, 000-student freshman class three times over with applicants who scored in the top 1% nationally on standardized tests or high school transcripts.
It's clear that systems that gauge student, teacher and school performance on standardized test scores put intense pressure on those results and inevitably tempt people to finagle them.