Students across the nation are required to take exams in classes as a prerequisite for receiving course credit or a diploma. ... Expectable score levels are determined by the individual state. ... According to Lois Weiner, Ed.D., "I failed the essay portion of New York's Teacher Certification Exam that measures professional knowledge...My doctorate in education is from Harvard...The company that creates, administers and grades the tests [National Evaluation Systems] has refused to consider the challenge I've lodged against my score "(Wiener). ...

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President Reagan proposed tax credits to parents for sending their children to private school and wanted to present vouchers to those who could not afford private school, both proposals removing even more money from public schools. ... Vital programs have been dropped and teachers penalized because of low scores. ...

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Most people have given credit for the increase in the number of home schooling to the growth of fundamentalist Christianity, although no one will ever know for certain. ... "This may be why home-schooled children generally score quite well on standardized tests, averaging between the sixty-fifth and ninetieth percentiles" (Sadker). ...

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Overall better test scores because kids are no longer being interrupted, better behaving kids, and the teachers wouldn't have to worry about getting the students they teach to behave. ... I would then open the emails or ads only to find out I have to give them my personal information and my credit card number? ...

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Statistics on educational achievement by race or ethnicity show that white, black and Asian children have better school rediness skills than Hispanics ages 3-6.Inlater education, Asian and white students still achieve higher scores than black and Hispanic students. ... This can be credited to the Pollyanna hypothesis, which suggests that social trends are changing and discrimination is eroding over time. ...

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