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Standardized tests alone will not improve the education of this country’s children. Tests of reasonable length might be good as diagnostic measures—to pinpoint which students, classes or schools need extra help. But actual improvements in education can only occur when reforms are made. Tests need to be combined with better staff training, better teaching, better use of resources and better organization to have any significant effect. And while standardized tests can be used for diagnostics, by only testing certain skills, they are not full measures of student achievement. These imperfect tests should...
...significantly, the private sector: Nestlé of Brazil, for example, will donate 1 million kg of food and 248 small homes to the program this year. Graziano concedes that Lula will stand or fall on this issue when he faces re-election in 2006; but he declined to pinpoint a gauge for success. Still, says Walder de Goes, a prominent political analyst in Brasília, "If Lula achieves most of the goal of Zero Hunger his presidency will be a success - it will have changed the culture of inequality here. There's no example of change like this...
...intelligence reports gathered from human and electronic sources around the world. Taken together, the reports suggested what intelligence officials had suspected for weeks: al-Qaeda operatives, in the words of a senior U.S. official, "are in the execution phase of some of their operations." The intelligence sources couldn't pinpoint the kind of strikes in the works or the cells charged with executing them. But U.S. officials told TIME that earlier this month Mueller and other top officials received credible intelligence that al-Qaeda had an attack--or multiple attacks--set to begin at some point last week, perhaps...
...aftermath of his team's great sequencing effort, announced ambitious new goals. These include sequencing all 23 pairs of human chromosomes, applying genomics to the treatment of specific diseases, developing gene-spotting systems for early detection of disease and expanding genome studies to larger populations so as to pinpoint the role of genetic differences in disease...
Although the Crimson lost each of its games at the Invitational, the team will use the game experience to pinpoint the areas of its play that need improvement before league competition begins...