Under Mr. Bush's bill, all states would test children annually, starting in the third grade.
Starting in the third century B.C., silk traveled to Europe along the various Silk Roads.
"They wanted you to look at the score of the baseball game starting in the third inning and determine who won," Mr. Aidala said.
Starting in the third grade and continuing through high school, hundreds of students drag themselves to these private tutoring classes, long a tradition in the Far East, day after day, after school, on weekends and over the summer.
The test reflects the philosophy and principles behind the No Child Left Behind law, which emphasizes literacy and math, and has imposed testing for children starting in the third grade as a key to raising academic achievement.
Jamie Moyer (4-2) gave up three runs and six hits in six and two-thirds innings, allowing just one runner -- on a walk -- during a 13-batter stretch starting in the third.
Taxpaying teams would retain the right to conduct sign-and-trade deals in the first two years of the agreement, but would be banned from doing so starting in the third year.
The superintendent of schools of the Flemington-Raritan Regional District, Dr. Jack Farr, notes that the elementary and middle school system has both a wide-ranging special education program starting in kindergarten and a gifted-and-talented program starting in the third grade.
