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Ephraim I. Schechter & North Carolina State UniversitySite provides hundreds of links to sources on the topic.

Individuals have the right to receive benefits for mental health and substance abuse treatment on the same basis as they do for any other illnesses, with the same provisions, co-payments, lifetime benefits, and catastrophic coverage in both insurance and self-funded/self-insured health plans.

The latest research articles on test development, alignment to instruction, scoring, cheating detection, and reporting to the public available from test developer CTB/McGraw-Hill.

Web site of the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale University.

This research shows that, under current conditions, the level of academic achievement that students attain by eighth grade has a larger impact on their college and career readiness by the time they graduate from high school than anything that happens academically in high school. The report also reveals that, on average, eighth-grade students who are not on target for college and career readiness are much less likely to be ready for college and career by high school graduation than eighth-grade students who are on target.

Liselle Drake & Lawrence Rudner
With the explosive growth of the Internet and the resultant increased use of information, ERIC, as a system, is now widely recognized as the central source in the education and social science fields. Our small staff of professionals, contracted abstractors at the Cygnus Corporation and several student workers have worked to make ERIC/AE viewed as the central source for assessment and evaluation information.

At a time when educators nationwide are increasingly relying upon test scores for professional licensure and determining whether student skill levels are basic, proficient or advanced, Educational Testing Service (ETS) has announced the publication of a "how to" manual on setting cutscores.

Richard Sawyer
Authorities have recommended many different strategies for improving the educational achievement of high school students. One such strategy is to encourage them to take more rigorous college-preparatory courses and to earn higher grades in these courses. We studied the effectiveness of this strategy using data from students who took ACTʼs EXPLORE test in eighth grade, the PLAN test in tenth grade, and the ACT in eleventh/twelfth grade.

Standardized testing bears the twin burden of controversy and complexity and is difficult for many to understand either dispassionately or technically. In response to this reality, a team of well-noted measurement specialists describe the current state of public debate about testing across fields, explain and refute the primary criticisms of testing, acknowledge the limitations and undesirable consequences of testing, provide suggestions for improving testing practices, and present a vigorous defense of testing as well as a practical vision for its promise and future

Pat Naughtin
Might I respectfully suggest that you don't have to use the metric system? Sit in your lounge chair and look about you, or walk about your home, and think of the things you own or use that are metric, and those that are not. Then you might like to go shopping while you consider the same question. Once you have decided what's metric and what's not, simply avoid all of those products or services where metric measures are used.