Australia were also upset on the opening day by an impressive French side, while Argentina needed a last-gasp score to avoid defeat to the United States.
Like the Bush plan, the state's program judges schools by annual gains, not absolute scores, to avoid rewarding schools that test well only because they have privileged students.
Math question: If you have the ball in the game's final seconds, and your team is down three points, how many do you need to score to avoid losing?
Most schools run by the Center for Educational Innovation, a group that helped set up 88 alternative schools, combine city and state reading and math scores to avoid tensions over achievement, said Seymour Fliegel, the center's president.
That Durham need only to double their score to avoid the follow-on, and that Middlesex were unable to launch an already promising innings from 329 for four fully into the stratosphere was thanks to the burly Australian seamer John Hastings, with the first of his four for 87, bowling Franklin after play had resumed 50 minutes late due to morning rain.
Therefore, the method has to penalize the similarity score to avoid a mapping of those atoms.
In the absence of a higher regulating body for quality control to monitor how final grades are produced and reported, teachers would easily inflate scores to avoid trouble and to keep the principals and administrators satisfied.
A Greece goal just before half-time in Warsaw, where Group A's other game was taking place, meant Czech Republic needed to score to avoid elimination from the tournament.
The city's answer is that it needs to rely on a single year's scores to avoid letting schools slide based on prior accomplishments, and to reward schools that make improvements.
Although Tables 7, 8 and 9 do not show these scores (to avoid cluttering), it can be said that the data used were of high quality.
