England's new primary phonics test risks doing "long-term damage" to children's reading, teachers' leaders say.
As one factor among many, test scores can provide useful data, but as the primary means of evaluating teachers test scores are too unreliable.
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He faces a key test in primary elections in Arizona and Michigan on 28 February.
The screening test for primary aldosteronism may require some advanced planning.
Steven made the call when he returned home after scoring five out of six in the test at Comerbach Primary School, near Northwich, Cheshire.
Test results for primary schools, out on December 7th, show that younger children are still failing to meet government targets in English and maths.
In the league table of test results for primary schools in England, published in March, church schools won 59 of the top 100 places.
This time around, there was so much hunger for a winner that Bush could actually hope to do something no one had ever managed before: sweep the money primary, the first big test of whom the insiders like, and pretty much coast through the ones that involve actual voters.
The current test includes verbal and non-verbal reasoning, which are not taught in primary schools and need coaching but the new test may drop that element and place the emphasis on English and Maths, which are taught in classrooms, BBC South East Today's political correspondent John Young explained.
In 2010, fire caused a 787 test flight to lose primary electrical power while flying from Yuma, Arizona, to Laredo, Texas.
In previous incidents, one of the 787 test flight aircraft lost primary electrical power in 2010 and was forced to make an emergency landing in Texas.
Dr Stephen Lawrence of the Primary Care Diabetes Society said the low comprehensive test rates could be due to the increasing numbers of patients being diagnosed with the condition.
He, and others, think the gains from SATs at any age are not worth the costs, which include a narrowing of the primary curriculum and ever-increasing teaching to the test.
Richmond's primary schools are also known for getting the best test results in the country - but the school opened in 1952 to serve this council estate in Ham faces the type of challenges more usually associated with more deprived boroughs.
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Wipa has cited pay, contract and medical issues as the primary reasons behind the senior players decision to boycott the Test series against Bangladesh.
Across America, primary and secondary education remains a mess, marked by low test scores and high dropout rates.
But it was the efforts of party operatives like Lee Atwater and Harry Dent that not only created the South Carolina primary in 1980 but also made sure it was the first test in the South.
Ronnie Hassard, from the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) of schools which use the GL assessment test, said he knew of no private donor.
The phonics test is now taken by all pupils in Year 1 in English primary schools.
After Mr. Davidson was recently referred to a cardiologist because of some incidents of dizziness, his primary-care doctor at his next visit had the specialist's notes and test results available electronically.
Now, with the May 5 primary looming, the Buckeye State is shaping up as a template for 1998, a test case for whether Republicans, exploiting the benefits of incumbency, can institutionalize their House majority as they head into the 2000 presidential campaign, or whether Democrats, exploiting the financial backing of labor unions, can regain control.
"We were looking through a peephole, " says Nelson, who is one of 3, 500 primary care doctors in an Aventis-funded study of the drug that will use the A1C test to measure which diabetes treatments are most effective.
Health managers at the county's primary care trust said out of 25, 000 25 to 29-year-olds offered the test, 14, 000 have not had it.
With the GOP primary contest down to Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, the debate has devolved into a personality and litmus test.
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