Sentence examples for oversees the test from inspiring English sources

"Although we talk about reform, not all the classrooms of America are seeing this reform," said Marilyn Whirry, a teacher in California and a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the test.

"Since the seniors are very close to voting age or already have reached it, one can only feel alarm that they know so little about their nation's history and express so little capacity to reflect on its meaning," said Dr. Ravitch, who sits on the board that oversees the test.

When results of a smaller, long-term trend version of the National Assessment were released in July, Darvin M. Winick, the chairman of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the test, warned against attributing the solid gains it showed among elementary students to No Child Left Behind.

Ellen Weiser, a classical pianist and former member of the Michigan State Board of Education who sits on the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the test, said that only about half of eighth graders who listened to a passage of George Gershwin's classic "Rhapsody in Blue" were able to identify the solo instrument as a clarinet.

But the results suggested that performance was influenced more by the disparities associated with race and income than by whether students attended school in cities or in other settings, said Darvin M. Winick, chairman of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the test.

"The nation has done a really good job improving math skills," said Mark Schneider, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research and a former official at the Education Department, which oversees the test, known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Manfred and Orza are on baseball's four-member Health Policy Advisory Committee, which oversees the testing regimen.

In 1996 the National Assessment Governing Board, a federal body that oversees the tests, voted to drop the Trend NAEP.

Still, Carole Beere, the chairwoman of the Graduate Record Examinations Board, which oversees the tests, said, "We are now monitoring the Web very aggressively".

Under the current system, baseball and the union each appoint two representatives to a health policy advisory committee, which oversees the testing program with an administrator.

In the current system, Major League Baseball and the union each appoint two representatives to the health policy advisory committee, which oversees the testing program.