81.   Citing tighter scrutiny over academic performance from accrediting agencies, the University of Texas System has begun exploring standardized tests to better gauge how well students are learning.

82.   Cheating may be one of the unintended consequences of the increasing reliance on standardized tests and the pressure to perform better, fast.

83.   Computers are an efficient means of delivering facts to students, just as standardized tests are a handy method of retrieving them.

84.   Concerns over standardized tests are as old as the tests themselves.

85.   Curiously, in his first vote as an independent, he voted against a Democratic proposal to encourage states to have stronger standardized tests in their schools.

86.   Davis, whose education agenda dominated the first part of his administration, tied the financial incentives to student performance on standardized tests.

87.   Cottrell said he hopes underclassmen realize that establishing a higher GPA early on will mean less pressure on the standardized tests later.

88.   Crew fired three school aides and six teachers who did not have tenure on Thursday after concluding that they had directed students to cheat on standardized tests.

89.   Demanding that students pass rigorous standardized tests with substandard educations is unfair, if not illegal.

90.   Drill-and-practice programs appear to improve scores modestly on some standardized tests, in narrow skill areas.