The state should intervene to save the children and to save the cost associated with poor test scores.

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Working fast, Vallas moved on to the toughest part of his job -- making public schools accountable for their results rather than blaming poor test scores on parents or society.

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Policymakers have pushed mostly carrot-and-stick remedies: firing underperforming teachers, giving merit pay to high performers, penalizing schools with poor student test scores.

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Poor children tend to have lower test scores, perhaps because their parents are too busy trying to make enough money to survive and don't emphasize learning at home.

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His inability to convert his starts into big scores is the difference between having a poor Test average and having an excellent average.

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But Bopara, whose place for the decisive final Ashes Test is under particular threat after a poor run of scores, did nothing to enhance his chances of retaining his spot for The Oval, edging only his seventh ball to Kartik at second slip for just 1.

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Ms Mayer found that although doubling the income of poor families would lift most children above the poverty line, it would have virtually no effect on their test scores and only a slight effect on social behaviour.

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