Word: tested
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...Port. Earlier, Kyle Bailey, a local pilot, had canceled a planned flight from Essex because of a troubling haze that had already reduced visibility. Bailey decided to ground himself when he looked off in the distance for a familiar mountain ridge but couldn't see it. "That is a test that most pilots use at the airport," he says...
...future, the numbers school officials are looking at will be on a different scale--1999 is the last year Massachusetts will give the Iowa reading test. Students will instead take a version of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, and third-graders will be given trial MCAS questions next spring before the test is launched...
...Alessandro said she hopes students will shine just as brightly on the MCAS tests, despite poor showings in the past. On the May 1998 tests, Cambridge ranked 168 out of 208 school districts and pulled in its worst scores in the fourth-grade language arts test, with 76 percent of students below the "proficient" mark...
...teach to the test," D'Alessandro said. "We really believe in many forms of assessment...
Essays in Expose are used as material for Expos, a required course for all freshmen. The course teaches writing style and grammar and can be completed in either one or two semesters, based on a placement test...