Word: apportionment
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Because state assessment tests focus on reading and math, other subjects get squeezed out. A recent study looked at how elementary-school teachers apportion their time each week: Weekly hours of instructional time, Grades 1 through 6
Launched as an evaluation tool in 1998, the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test, or FCAT, is already being used to grade schools and distribute funds. Now critics like the state's biggest teachers union argue the test is about to be used for another task for which it was never designed...
Thankfully, Dean Kidd has already said that plans are “at the beginning of the ground floor of a very open process.” Better it stays that way. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has said that “the...
The President's lapse is not just moral but historical. At first, he declared that he would put the past behind him: reopen no wounds, apportion no blame, visit no death camp. But one cannot pretend that the world began on V-E day 1945. One has to ask the...
As the dust settles on post-Saddam's Iraq's first democratic election, the big winners are the Shiite Islamist parties rather than the U.S.-backed interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Indeed, Allawi, whose list gathered just 14 percent of the national vote, appears to have conceded that he's...