in the state of Texas also have suspicious TAKS scores. This now brings the total number of schools in question up to 699.

going to allow students to take the TAKS exam online or by the old scool method of a number 2 pencil.

magazine says who needs Harvard.

I will agree that Harvard is a great college, but other colleges in the USA teach specialty degrees and classes Harvard skips and our economy would not work as well with out them.

Florida colleges will get into more on Hurricanes, The University of Oklahoma gets more into Tornadoes.

Some students need colleges with a small population. Other students need the college with the top of the line sports program with major TV air time.

on social promotion.  Only 2% of students were held back last even though over 30% of schools were called failures by the state.

in the Des Moines Iowa area are increasing test scores.

on a gender gap between Boys and Girls in the state of Connecticut.  In grades 3 through 8 54 percent of boys met goals in writing while 71% of girls met that same goal.