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...coming academic year will serve as a test year after which the program will have to adjust the size of its grants to remain within budget...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bush Announces Financial Aid Plan | 2/8/2006 | See Source »

...that Cambridge measures student achievement is by comparing minorities’ test scores to those of whites. According to a report published by the school system this past December, Cambridge would attain a “standard of excellence” if there were no gap between white students and minorities on tests. The “standard of excellence” also mandates equal attendance and discipline rates across ethnic groups...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Civil Rights Activist Criticizes Cambridge Public School Policy that Compares White and Minority Test Scores | 2/8/2006 | See Source »

...There’s a lot of fear going around this high school,” said a student member of the School Committee, James Conway, referring to the distress surrounding MCAS scores. “People are really trying their hardest to pass this test and succeed, and they should be commended,” Conway said...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Civil Rights Activist Criticizes Cambridge Public School Policy that Compares White and Minority Test Scores | 2/8/2006 | See Source »

...Both professors and Summers see the search for a new dean as a key test of the relationship between the Faculty and the central administration...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs and Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: With Summers on Defensive, Professors Expect Big Role in Search for New Dean | 2/8/2006 | See Source »

...testing a mailable reader, a very thin, hard box about the size of a large postcard. We could mail that to you to put on your TV, and you could mail it back. It would be an efficient way of collecting information. We're testing it among employees, and we'll have a market test with clients this summer. We've had an ongoing test with Arbitron [which does ratings research for radio] for a device called a PPM [portable people meter]. It looks like a little pager, and you wear it, and it would allow us to measure television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEO Speaks: The Rating Game | 2/7/2006 | See Source »

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