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Sometime by the end of the decade, many, if not most, fourth-, eighth- and 12th-grade students in a small cluster of states will take a sophisticated series of new examinations to assess their knowledge in English, mathematics, science, history and geography.
May 26, 1991
Business
Education: Harcourt, CTB/McGraw-Hill and Riverside Publishing control the lion’s share of the market. As demand for testing booms, so do profits.
July 23, 2000
California
Private Schools Have More Freedom in Selecting Standardized Exams--and in What They Do With the Results
May 19, 1999
Sophomores act as guinea pigs to judge the effectiveness of what will become a requirement for students hoping to graduate, beginning with next year’s freshmen.
May 24, 2000
Possible cheating during standardized testing is investigated
Aug. 10, 2013
Education: L.A. and San Francisco districts seek to alter or scrap Stanford 9 and exit exams.
May 29, 2002
Education: His would be the first major university system to abandon the exam. He will urge campuses to develop more ‘holistic’ admissions criteria.
Feb. 17, 2001
Opinion
UC and other colleges have been dropping the SAT, but keeping parts of the admission process that make things even tougher for low-income students.
Feb. 21, 2022
Exams involving writing give a better measurement of students and schools, advocates say. But grading them objectively, and by the same standards, could prove problematic.
Dec. 31, 1997
High schools: The district is the first to release data. Results are above average except in reading.
June 2, 1999