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Average national test scores, all students...
Federal law requires that students be tested annually to determine their reading and math skills but leaves it to each state to devise the exam. The result, critics say, is that some states make their tests easier so it appears that their students are doing well. The evidence: huge gaps between state results and scores on national standardized tests. State test results Percentage of fourth-graders scoring as proficient or better in reading Federal test results Percentage of fourth-graders scoring as proficient or better in reading...
...count, Mississippi is tied for the best score in the country. But on the U.S. test, the state drops to 50th place?a whopping 71 points lower...
Massachusetts students score best on the federal test...
Hanging a new museum show is never less than a complicated job. Getting all that art positioned just so--it's a test of nerves. But when the show is for Richard Serra, whose typical work is made from coiling steel plates that weigh 20 tons or so, complicated doesn't begin to describe it. Putting the things in place is like moving a dozen rockets to their launch pads. There's one sizable new Serra, called Sequence, that consists of 12 plates weighing a total of 243 tons. The average commercial airliner weighs...