101.   For all that hand-holding, Vallas refuses to soften the sting of the standardized tests to which the curriculum is linked.

102.   For that matter, fossil evidence suggests that Neanderthals had very sizable brains, and they did not even last long enough to invent standardized tests.

103.   Flint has been pleased with standardized test scores at its two Edison schools, but other cities have seen little difference after Edison took over.

104.   For the first time in Massachusetts on a standardized test, students have had to explain their answer to a math or science problem.

105.   For the same reason, she despises taking standardized tests, where the toughest question on the exam often is the one that asks her race.

106.   Fourth-graders approach state averages on standardized tests, but by the seventh-grade just a third can read or do math at their grade level.

107.   Fourth-graders approach state averages on standardized tests, but by the seventh grade just a third can read or do math at their grade level.

108.   For two years, former ASU education Dean David Berliner has tracked standardized test scores of students taught by Arizona teachers with emergency certification.

109.   Gov. George W. Bush opposes a standardized national test for public school students.

110.   Had it not been for the course he took on standardized tests, he might not have.