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...Some people get testaphobia," she says. "I passed my math classes with flying colors, but I get to that TAAS test and my mind's like blank. I have no idea why." She'll try once more in July, but if she fails, all her plans will have come to nothing...
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...
...graders are above average. Unfortunately, it may be all downhill from there, and that suggests that something is wrong with American schools. In the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, American fourth-graders ranked third in science (behind Korea and Japan) and 12th out of the 26 countries in math. In another study last year, U.S. eighth graders finished 17th in math and a woebegone 28th in science. The fact that younger students compare more favorably than older ones suggests that American schools may be slowing them down. Education Secretary Richard Riley says that?s precisely why President Clinton...
...Even math and science concentrators, who tend to have a more rigid set of required courses for their concentrations, say that they find shopping period invaluable in selecting Cores and electives...
...very common in an introductory class, also called surveys, to use textbooks," he says, adding that math and science courses are especially conducive to textbooks...