Word: exam
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...accountability by beefing up and enforcing state standards. Most important, he started tracking results by race and ethnicity, rewarding schools that boost performance--especially minority performance. He also took on state teachers' colleges, telling them that 70% of graduates in each minority group must pass the state teacher-certification exam or the schools would risk losing accreditation; 35 of the state's 86 colleges are now on probation. Says Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform, "Few Governors have been willing to test as much as he has. Texas is well on its way toward real accountability...
...exam showed gallstones and Anderson had hergallbladder removed that week...
...teacher candidates and concerned citizens. Silber has proven his reluctance to cooperate with his colleagues by refusing to release a copy of the teacher test given last spring or explain how those tests were graded. In addition, his disparaging comments about the intelligence of those candidates who failed the exam (comments which you echoed immediately) set a disastrous example for teacher-bashing in the state...
...They tell me that during exam week [thefaculty] take ice cream around to the students,"Kiefer said...
Things appeared ideal for McLaughlin as he was signed to a contract by the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer on the day after his last final exam...