Sentence examples for tests education from inspiring English sources

States Disagree on Setting Standards and Tests" (Education page, Dec. 31): The lack of nationwide test standards under the federal No Child Left Behind law indeed presents a dilemma.

"Boycotts and a Bill Protest Mandatory State Tests" (Education page, March 6) notes that 78percentt of students surveyed nationally by Public Agenda said they did not feel that preparing for standardized tests interfered with their regular classroom learning.

Public Agenda's finding that standardized test preparation does not force 75percentt of students to neglect "other classroom work" corresponds to teachers' complaints that they have had to abandon challenging curriculum projects to make time for test preparation ("Boycotts and a Bill Protest Mandatory State Tests," Education page, March 6).

Re "The Pitfalls of Make-or-Break Tests" (Education page, March 7): The passing score on the recently introduced placement test in reading at the City University of New York was not reduced in order to produce a higher pass rate.

However, after the tests, education leaders complained that the exams were "more difficult than they expected," according to the New York Times.

But we can hardly consider standardized tests education: They enforce ideas of academic success and future prosperity that are as outrageous as the profit the testing industry rolls in from dependent schools and families.

Labs could encourage pre-test education by requiring signed patient consent forms or providing educational materials with marketing materials or lab requisition forms.

Sexual health services are responsible for huge proportions of HIV testing, education and specialist care for newly-diagnosed individuals.

"It is vital that we take a unified approach to tackle doping in sport and work together across countries and continents to ensure best practice in testing, education and intelligence," Crouch said.

XJTLU is one of the experiments by the Chinese government to test education styles that differ from the classic Chinese education system and one of the main goals is to improve creative thinking amongst its student population.

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