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...CRUCIAL QUESTIOIN is, of course, what the school system decides to do about students who don't meet the competency level for their grade. If, as officials indicate, they treat deficiencies as the fault of the school or of some particular hitch in the curriculum, the use of standardized tests can do nothing but good. If the scores raise what Mary Lou McGrath, director of elementary education, calls "people's level of awareness of accountability" to students, then results like the reading and writing weakness and the sixth grade dip are useful warning signals about where improvement is necessary...
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