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Already 18 states have high school exit tests. National tests, endorsed by Bill Clinton and George Bush before him, will begin in 1999 with fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math. The tests are supposed to serve only as a benchmark to assess educational progress, but they could one day lead to nationwide graduation standards. Now Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and IBM chairman Louis Gerstner Jr., co-chairs of last year's Education Summit, are adding to the pressure, enlisting companies to pledge that they will look at young applicants' academic records, including exit-test scores, rather than rely only...
...defending national champions, the Black and White had a lot to live up to this season. Every benchmark has been passed heading into next weekend's national championships in Camden, New Jersey...
...sorts of questions festering in my head: How would people have reacted if the spirit Major Nelson who stumbled upon in the in the pilot episode of "I Dream of Genie" ended up being gay? Is the open homosexuality of a sitcom protagonist really the kind of cultural benchmark that merits a lead New York Times editorial? Is the decision of the people behind one television series a sign of the New American Openness...
With 1996's yield almost four points above the benchmark, compensations can be expected to rise this year. But Meyer said that HMC suffers somewhat of a political injustice because of its efforts to save money through internal management...
...endowment's return of 16.8 percent was more than nine points below the Standard and Poor's 500, a widely recognized benchmark of stock market performance...