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Glendale Unified scores well on high school exit exams
Glendale Unified posted strong results among sophomores who took the state high school exit exam this past school year, according to the latest figures released Wednesday. For 2011-12, 93% of sophomores who took high school exit exams passed the...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Los Angeles Unified School District, School Examinations, Students, Science and Technology
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County exit exam scores approach state's passing rates
Staff writerAs high school students throughout Imperial County embark on another school year, a majority of incoming juniors can breathe a little easier knowing the California High School Exit Exam is behind them. CAHSEE results for the sophomore class of 2011-...Tags: Education, Robert J. Lopez, Teaching and Learning, Schools, High Schools
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City school students show improvement on exit exam
SAN DIEGO -- San Diego Unified School District 10th graders performed slightly better on the California High School Exit Exam than the previous year's class, with 86 percent passing the math portion and 83 percent passing the English section, according to...
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Parents seek new teacher evaluations by September
L.A. NOWLos Angeles parents planned to press for a court order Tuesday forcing the nation’s second-largest school district to begin using student test scores in teacher evaluations by early September. In a closely watched case that could transform teacher... -
Stuck in place
The results of this year's Maryland School Assessments test, which show Baltimore City schools making only marginal progress on standardized test scores over last year, are troubling because they seem to suggest that the ambitious reforms begun five years...
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Tests Aren't The Problem — And New One Is No Solution
The Hartford CourantState Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said that a new standardized test given on computers will adjust its questions according to a student's answers. If a student gets a question incorrect, "the system will provide other questions to try to get at...Tags: Education, West Hartford, University of Connecticut, Teaching and Learning, Storrs
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Grammy, Pulitzer winners, TV star among highlights of upcoming Zoellner season
Lehigh Valley MusicA Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, the world premiere of a song cycle based on poems by Carl Reiner’s daughter, dazzling international dance ensembles, circus arts and perhaps America’s premier storyteller will highlight the 16th season of... -
Editorial: Right direction
Scores achieved by Harford County students in the latest round of testing designed to assess the performance of teachers and the school system mostly show continued incremental improvement, with many of the county's elementary schools finishing well above...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Harford County, Teachers, School Examinations, Academic Progress
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River Hill student achieves highest possible score on ACT
Taariq Mohammed has never had a problem keeping academics ahead of sports. The captain of River Hill High's state championship wrestling team recently entered a wrestling camp on the morning he was to discover how well he did on the ACT, the college...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Howard County, Teaching and Learning, AIDS, Colleges and Universities
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Degree of Preparation
If you’re thinking about going back to school to finally get your master’s, there’s no better time than now. But before you start, it’s important to know what the process entails. With more and more professionals seeking to advance...
Tags: University of Michigan, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Medical Procedures and Tests, University of California, Los Angeles
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Away from the Game: O's reliever Darren O'Day was planning to become a plastic surgeon
Darren O'Day doesn't just transcend the dumb-jock stereotype. He shatters it into tiny pieces. He scored high enough on his entrance exam to get into medical school. Scored high enough on another entrance exam to get into law school. But right now he'...
Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Teaching and Learning, Medical Procedures and Tests, Florida Gators, Plastic Surgeons
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Cheating, tampering found in city schools
Widespread cheating on state assessment tests has been uncovered at two Baltimore elementary schools, state and district officials are expected to announce today.
Investigators with the state Department of Education found that Maryland School...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Human Interest, Nancy Grasmick, Arne Duncan, Students
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