Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other women, The Washington Post reported. Attorneys working with independent counsel Kenneth Starr argue that the interviews were necessary to establish whether President Clinton had confided details of his business investment to anyone. Maybe next they'll be hunting down people Clinton went to camp with in the fourth grade...
Already 18 states have high school exit tests. National tests, endorsed by Bill Clinton and George Bush before him, will begin in 1999 with fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math. The tests are supposed to serve only as a benchmark to assess educational progress, but they could one day lead to nationwide graduation standards. Now Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and IBM chairman Louis Gerstner Jr., co-chairs of last year's Education Summit, are adding to the pressure, enlisting companies to pledge that they will look at young applicants' academic records, including exit-test scores, rather than rely only...
...TAAS results--while low scores invite sanctions, high-stakes tests may make it even harder for schools serving disadvantaged students to recruit the best faculty. Some schools inflate their scores by tinkering with the test pool; techniques include pushing low achievers into special education, or making them repeat a grade, which may cause them to fall further behind and ultimately drop...
...sales tax and raise the minimum wage. The leftist platform, if implemented, threatens to send the deficits soaring and derail French chances of meeting the tough criteria for joining Europe's single currency, the euro. With Germany racked by increasing doubts about its own ability to make the grade, the French election touched off a new though probably exaggerated round of Euro-pessimism...
...down, and China has ignored her calls to stop jailing dissidents. "She clearly has a sharper and more public style," says Richard Haass, director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution. "But if this were a report card, at best you'd give her an incomplete." The final grade depends on results...