Word: minnesotan
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...schools' performances. At the same time, the companies have been plagued by a lack of qualified staff. These factors have contributed to a concerning number of errors in the industry, as a series in The New York Times recently documented. Last May, NCS Pearson testing gave 47,000 Minnesotan students lower scores than they deserved. CTB/McGraw-Hill, a rival company, has not fared any better; last September, almost a quarter of New York City students forced to take summer school after receiving low scores on their exams learned that the tests had been mis-graded. Increasing demand for testing has also...
...democracy was evident everywhere. Muslim women in elegant gray chadors sat whispering in the same waiting room with stolid farmers and their wives, geezers and geezerettes next to minor Pooh-bahs and nabobs yakking on cell phones. Snatches of French and German drifted by, and Japanese, and Minnesotan ("So you think it's going to be a long time then? Or no?"). And all of us praying the same continuous silent prayer to the Great Internist to let the tests come out clean and please no colonoscopy today...