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2003 Archives
Time Out From Testing has archived the following articles from 2003.

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12-31How to Measure Student Proficiency? New York Times
12-23New Education Law Is Faulted in Gauging PerformanceNew York Times
12-10Letter to Editor by Ann Cook:
In reply to: "A Miracle Revisited: Gains in Houston Schools..."
New York Times
12-9No Child Left Behind In New York? (audio included)WNYC
12-3A Miracle Revisited: Gains in Houston Schools: How Real Are They?New York Times
11-17Regents :: fiasco as Titanic :: disasterRecord Online
10-23British teachers denounce national testsBBC News
10-15Racial gaps cited in Regents exams
-- Group says mandatory state tests are punishing minorities
Times Union
10-15Group: Regents' rules hit minoritiesRochester Democrat and Chronicle
10-15Trail of Clues PrecededNew York Times
10-955 Will Remain Passing Grade On Regents Test At Local OptionAP News
10-9Regents Keeps 55Journal News
10-9Regents make changesJournal News
10-855 Will Remain Passing Grade On Regents Test At Local OptionAP News
10-8Flawed Math Test Shows Flawed SystemAP News
10-8Board Of Regents Mulls Reducing Passing Scores:
Math And Science Eyed
The New York Sun
9-27Flawed Regents test to be rescoredJournal News
9-24Component Regents testing facing criticismJournal News
9-24NY Among Lowest Graduation RatesNewsday
9-23Group says Regents requirement will hurt Buffalo's graduation rateBuffalo News
9-23Group of parents, teachers seeks halt to Regents testingIthaca Journal
9-23Testing trialsThe Journal News
9-23Nassau Eyes Own Physics Test; Schools may dump troubled RegentsNewsday
9-23A statewide coalition has been formedNew York Post
9-23Group opposes Regents test rulePost Standard
9-23Parents' group wants Regents test overhaulPougkeepsie Journal
9-23Group says tests shouldn't be needed to graduatePress Connects
9-23N.Y. group seeks end of Regents grad rulesStar Gazette
9-23Regents exams criticizedTimes Union
9-23Debate continues over fairness of state Regents examsUticaOD.com
3-12When a Passing Grade Defies Laws of PhysicsNew York Times

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Music Video: "Not on the Test"
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"Keeping Accountability Systems Accountable,"
Martha Foote, Jan. 2007

Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math
Sam Dillon, New York Times

As Test-Taking Grows, Test-Makers Grow Rarer
David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times

Principals Face Review in Education Overhaul
Elissa Gootman, New York Times

"No Child Left Behind: The Test"
Stan Karp, Rethinking Schools

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"Test Question No. 1: Why Have These Tests?"
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