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Testing

January 5, 2009

• The SAT: A force for good or evil?

October 1, 2008

• Understanding Botkins vs. Jackson Center

September 24, 2008

• Here's how Miami Valley districts rank for test scores, income

September 22, 2008

• Is it time to kill the SAT?

September 4, 2008

• I'm trying to check this out

August 31, 2008

• Study: Ohio tests invalid for rating schools

August 26, 2008

• Find all the results for every local district here
• Report cards out, Dayton last in Ohio again

July 18, 2008

• ETS' test scoring going over like a lead balloon in Great Britain

July 14, 2008

• Cheat on the SAT? No big deal

December 17, 2007

• Income, school readiness, test scores strongly linked
• Data shows many kindergarteners start school behind

August 27, 2007

• What we can (and can't) learn from test scores

August 25, 2007

• The valley's elementary schools ranked

August 19, 2007

• College readiness: New clues from report cards

August 16, 2007

• Brookville moved up, too

August 15, 2007

• Is it racist to track minority group scores?

August 14, 2007

• Dayton slips back into "academic watch"
• Some highlights of the state report card release
• State report cards: How local schools rate
• AP test success ranked for area schools
• Percent of grads with an honors diploma
• Miami Valley SAT scores ranked
• Miami Valley ACT scores ranked

July 25, 2007

• Try your hand at the state test online

June 7, 2007

• When grads don't get diplomas

May 21, 2007

• ERCO to City Day: Fire Goff or else

May 16, 2007

• City Day sponsor urges firing
• City Day sponsor urges superintendent's removal

May 15, 2007

• Profiles in cheating

April 20, 2007

• Scenes from an American childhood: Fun free zones

April 10, 2007

• City Day on "probation"

April 9, 2007

• City Day gets probation on test concerns

April 3, 2007

• Seeking a liberal arts education ... in China?

March 26, 2007

• Return of my purple imaginary friend

March 10, 2007

• Maybe school reform isn't working

March 8, 2007

• Confessions of a smarty pants

February 23, 2007

• State to investigate City Day testing

February 11, 2007

• City Day beats suburban test champ Oakwood
• City Day scores raise questions about state monitoring

February 4, 2007

• City Day's practice tests
• Lessons in test security
• City Day: Practice test raises questions

September 19, 2006

• Watch the college admission dominos fall

September 7, 2006

• Richest to poorest school districts ranked

September 5, 2006

• Learning from Piqua
• Income, test scores strongly linked in Ohio schools

September 4, 2006

• Ohio, testing and cheating

August 30, 2006

• Cheating on state tests

August 23, 2006

• Time for some perspective?

August 22, 2006

• Miami Valley's high schools ranked

August 21, 2006

• The valley's top 50 elementary schools
• Charters and the district — Siamese twins?

August 17, 2006

• Who's in the Miami Valley?

August 16, 2006

• The Miami Valley's report card winners and losers

August 15, 2006

• Miami Valley schools ranked top to bottom
• What's your district's rating? Find it here
• Lots of report card improvement

August 12, 2006

• Hmmm. Will Dayton really move up?

July 26, 2006

• As test scores rise, the town gets richer

July 21, 2006

• A sharper No. 2 will solve the world's problems

July 19, 2006

• Predestined to flunk

July 16, 2006

• The Miami Valley's most overachieving (and underachieving) school districts
• How much does income affect test results?
• Miami Valley school district income vs. test performance
• Miami Valley school districts ranked by performance index
• Miami Valley school districts ranked by income

July 14, 2006

• Trusting tests over teachers

July 7, 2006

• Ooops, we lost your SAT

June 11, 2006

• The complete list of OGT results

June 9, 2006

• Oakwood best on state tests

May 29, 2006

• The SAT gets harder

May 26, 2006

• How common is cheating?

May 22, 2006

• Race, tests and intelligence

May 17, 2006

• When it pays to take an extra test

May 8, 2006

• The NBA and the SAT

May 4, 2006

• You heard it first here

May 2, 2006

• Oakwood, Centerville nationally ranked

April 1, 2006

• Tests that endanger body parts?

March 29, 2006

• Reading, 'Rithmatic ... and nothing else

March 22, 2006

• NY Times agrees with DDN

March 16, 2006

• Test companies flunking out?

March 14, 2006

• Tests scores as wrong answers

March 13, 2006

• Your test score may be closer than it appears

February 24, 2006

• Test companies need a watchdog

February 19, 2006

• What a test can't tell you

January 5, 2006

• The black-white test score gap

December 29, 2005

• Flunked by the Beatles

December 12, 2005

• Whoops, you didn't flunk!

December 6, 2005

• Are some grad rates phony?

November 8, 2005

• When teachers cheat

October 27, 2005

• Tested to death

October 20, 2005

• Report: Ohio kids getting smarter

October 14, 2005

• Report: Ohio getting dumber

September 15, 2005

• What Katrina victims need most — tests!

September 12, 2005

• Testing little kids

September 8, 2005

• Behind the classroom door
• Behind the classroom door

August 24, 2005

• Politics turned upside down

August 19, 2005

• A good debate

August 18, 2005

• What else makes a good school?

August 17, 2005

• So what's it all mean?

August 16, 2005

• Navigating test scores
• Growth model helps Dayton

August 11, 2005

• Why we're low in the world

August 7, 2005

• My purple imaginary friend