Word: exam
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...board of education disclosed last month that nearly 98% of the state's schools failed to meet suggested accreditation minimums on the new Standards of Learning test, though many educators claim the test was unfair because it was not geared specifically to school curriculums. In Massachusetts, which introduced its exam last spring, more than 80% of fourth-graders got a failing score or a "needs improvement" in English; half of all 10th-graders failed the math portion of the test. Governor Paul Cellucci calls the performance "unacceptable." Maybe so, but it's not surprising, says Harvard lecturer S. Paul Reville...
...Boston School Committee has decided to overturn its controversial December vote to appeal a federal court ruling that declared the race-based admissions policies of the district's three exam schools--public schools with entrance requirements--unconstitutional...
Boston Latin School, the most prestigious of the three exam schools, assigned 50 percent of the places based on entrance examination results and grade point average...
...immediate future, the three exam schools are barred from using race criteria in admissions. But Lynch said the committee is looking into "ways to use race that pass constitutional muster...
...small town high school in Midwestern America. The fun doesn't stop there, of course; these aliens have dreams of world domination--after all the teachers have been "commuted" it's time to conquer the student body. When an alien-possessed history teacher tells his class that today's exam will consist of "writing down the names of all your living relatives," audience members have a sneaking suspicion that these relatives won't be human (or "living") too much longer...