1.   Bush wants to reform public schools by tying federal education funding to how well students perform on mandatory tests.

2.   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.

3.   Research supports the notion that smaller classes can make a difference in how well students learn in the early primary years.

4.   State tests are intended to measure how well a particular student, as well as a whole school, meets state standards.

5.   Still, the test results remain a good guide to how well students will do in their freshman year.

6.   The Scholastic Assessment Test, formerly the Scholastic Aptitude Test, is supposed to predict only how well students will do in their first year of college.

7.   The testing provision requires states to develop and administer tests to better gauge how well students are reading and doing math.

8.   Under the program, schools are accredited based on how well students learn specific subjects rather than on standards such as the numbers of books the schools have.

9.   We ought to have a system that judges its employees based on how well students do rather than job protection.