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...whole is in the midst of a boom. The standards-and-accountability movement has led states and schools to test American students more often than at any other time in history. And if President Bush has his way, states will be required to test all students in third through eighth grades--22 million kids--every year in math and reading. That's big money for K-12 testmakers, a market currently dominated by textbook publishers but one that ETS is poised to join. After a rough decade of losses caused by a heavy investment in computer-based exams, ETS last...
While ETS is mining the whole K-12 market, the College Board has its eye on middle schools. This spring the company will unveil new math and English curriculums and tests designed to be like AP courses for seventh- and eighth-graders. College Board president Gaston Caperton says middle schools "are crying out" for such programs. Researchers at the College Board have also developed an SAT for eighth-graders, complete with developmentally appropriate math and verbal reasoning sections, to get kids thinking about college even sooner than they already...
...going into ebb tide, right? Then, a few days later, George W. Bush began his first major address as President by proposing an enormous new federally mandated regime of standardized tests for public schoolchildren, with every student being tested in reading and math every year from third through eighth grade. This would be the first Washington-ordered standardized educational test, and if instituted it would increase the scope of testing by far more than Atkinson's proposal would reduce it. So what's going on here...
...competition at A&M will be tough, but it will be nothing new for Shevchik. He took home a bronze medal in the 200-meter backstroke at the 1999 Pan American Games and placed eighth in the 200 backstroke at NCAAs last year...
...Some may go to Shantideva for consolation. It was in the eighth century, around the time that the iconoclastic synod gathered, that the Buddhist master composed the "Bodhisattvacharyavatara" or "The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life," a classic of Mahayana Buddhism...