11.   The test administered to all eighth grade students to predict how they will perform in high school showed a slight drop across the state.

12.   This shift, some professors told the Educational Policy Committee, has made it more difficult to grade students on their clear-cut knowledge of absolute facts.

13.   Mohammad Arif, a fourth grade student , said an armed soldier entered his home and ordered him to vote.

14.   The kindergarten-through-eighth grade students had been waiting for their parents in a parking lot between the school and a church.

15.   The Philippines will begin using three regional languages as the medium of instruction for first grade students in an experiment starting this year, officials said Wednesday.