Sentence examples for declining test from inspiring English sources

The campaign will attempt to back up the charge by discussing declining test scores, safety concerns, and widening achievement gaps between rich and poor.

Since overweight kids have suppressed ghrelin levels, Horvath theorizes that perhaps the obesity epidemic has contributed to declining test scores and other American educational woes.

Say what you will about declining test scores or increasing obesity among kids, but there is fresh proof that kids today do more in a day than kids a generation ago could do in a week.

"Yet the solution we constantly hear for declining test scores and graduation rates is ever more teachers".

Similarly, politicians and educators wring their hands over declining test scores among schoolchildren in the language arts: writing and reading, phonics, spelling, comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, analytical thinking.

The declining test scores have inspired a "call to action" to push our schools to have more "rigorous core courses" in high school.

We examined testing performed rather than testing offered, so may have misclassified patients declining testing as 'not tested'.

Furthermore, universal HIV screening may not be in use in these facilities, or mothers are declining testing or not reporting.

Similarly, many studies on routine testing showed prior testing, and several times, negative results were among common reasons for declining testing.

Anderson preferred an earlier proposal that would have allowed athletes to decline testing only if they could show proof of a previous test.

In April, the N.C.A.A. passed legislation requiring all Division I institutions to screen their athletes for the sickle-cell trait, although it allowed students to decline testing.