Word: testing
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...What the demonstrations did make clear was the extent to which President Clinton's own hands are tied domestically. Following on the heels of the nuclear test ban treaty debacle, the WTO failure may usher in an open season on the lame duck President's foreign policy. Clinton's defeat in Seattle will certainly embolden those congressional forces that had vowed to turn down the President's deal with China over WTO membership, putting at least a question mark over its passage in an election year. But what's bad for Bill Clinton may not be altogether...
...idea, says council treasurer Sterling P. A. Darling '01, was to convince the administration of the workability of UKA through successful test runs in some houses and campus-wide surveys of student interest in the matter...
...much tougher proposition. Unlike early childhood education, for which there are widely accepted models for success, high school is an area that education leaders aren't quite sure how to address. In the '90s some states experimented with vouchers, while most raised their targets for student achievement on standardized tests. That hasn't been very successful; just last week, for example, Arizona announced that only 1 in 10 sophomores passed a new state math test, and states are now rushing to ease their testing standards. Meanwhile, calls for federal funding for school construction and for more, better-trained teachers...
When first administered in April of that year, only 41 percent of test-takers passed, igniting debate throughout the Commonwealth...
...legislation mandated that, beginning in 1998, teachers be certified by obtaining a passing score on a standardized test...