11.   Each school was assigned a probation team to recommend changes that would increase student test scores.

12.   Earlier this week the RAND Corp., a research group, released a study by Stephen P. Klein and others that questions rising student test scores in Texas.

13.   Finn cites a new study showing that where teachers major in math, not education, student math scores are higher.

14.   For years it has been criticized for low student test scores and its bureaucratic leadership.

15.   Gov. George Pataki of New York, for example, has cited low student scores, despite high spending, as an example of an ineffective use of resources.

16.   He is now trying out the program, which did raise student test scores and teaching standards in Arkansas, on the nation.

17.   If so, he expects to convince the skeptics that salaries could ultimately rely on student scores.

18.   In Galveston, it was student test scores.

19.   Individual student scores still are being sent to parents, with some reports not expected to reach homes until the end of the month.

20.   Nationally, the report notes, student scores have inched up in math and science.