71.   Rand used NAEP as a benchmark, researchers said, because the national test is generally considered a solid indicator of student achievement.

72.   Researchers tracked student achievement for the study groups through high school and beyond.

73.   Schools were labeled low-performing, acceptable, recognized and exemplary, mostly based on student achievement on the exam.

74.   She, like hundreds of counterparts around the country, is frustrated by slumping student achievement, unsafe schools and impenetrable bureaucracies.

75.   Student achievement is improving.

76.   Student achievement has not improved substantially despite the large expenditures.

77.   Studies also show that students and teachers have fewer absences and that student achievement improves.

78.   Superintendent Sid Thompson said he supports Horton and believes his commitment will be to student achievement.

79.   State Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin said the test results underscore the monumental challenge facing California schools as they work to raise student achievement.

80.   Supporters say judges only intended that some measures of student achievement, such as test scores, be considered to determine whether educational inequities have been corrected.