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The British government has ordered an inquiry into the actions of a U.S. company hired to mark more than a million pupils' exam papers, after schools complained of missed deadlines, shoddy work and inconsistent grading.
The pastor of a Kentucky church that handles snakes in religious rites was among 10 people arrested by wildlife officers in a crackdown on the venomous snake trade.
A British high school student received credit for writing nothing but a two-word obscenity on an exam paper because the phrase expressed meaning and was spelled correctly.
A hospital did nothing wrong when it tried to examine the rectum of a construction worker who had been hit on the head by a falling wooden beam, a jury found Monday.
A construction worker claimed in a lawsuit that when he went to a hospital after being hit on the forehead by a falling wooden beam, emergency room staffers forcibly gave him a rectal examination.
The number of California high school dropouts spiked in 2006, the first year seniors were required to pass an exit exam to graduate, according to a report presented Wednesday to the state Board of Education.
A man said he failed the Massachusetts bar exam because he refused to answer a question about gay marriage, and claims in a federal lawsuit the test violated his rights and targeted his religious beliefs.
Se habla espanol? An estimated 14 million people who study Spanish soon may be able to measure their proficiency with a test language specialists hope will become the Spanish-language equivalent to the widely accepted Test of English as a Foreign Language, or TOEFL.
If College of Charleston students are getting headaches these days, it's not from studying the Treaty of Utrecht or Planck's constant for finals. The constant they have to deal with is the metallic clang of a pile driver sinking columns for a new campus building.
A community college math instructor has apologized for a test question invoking Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that students complained was racially insensitive.
To graduate this year, high school senior Nadira Wasi faces a requirement that no class before hers has — the state's high school exit exam.
White House backs off cancer test guidelinesA top federal health official said Wednesday that the controversial new guidelines for breast cancer screening do not represent government policy, as the Obama administration sought to keep the debate over mammograms from undermining the prospects for health-care reform.
Sssh, exam is on SEOUL - EDUCATION-OBSESSED South Korea rescheduled rush hour and airline flights on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren sat a college entrance examination seen as crucial to their future.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Woman passes 950th driving testA South Korean woman is celebrating after passing the written exam for a driving licence - on her 950th attempt.
Japanese gangsters forced to sit exams in crime The battle-scarred gangsters of Japan's most infamous underworld group, the Yamaguchi-gumi, are being forced to study for an exam covering the key aspects of their trade.
State raises exam standardsSchool districts will have to wait until late August for the results of key tests for No Child Left Behind because the state raised proficiency standards on the exams.
I received this in an email from my sister. The answers the children give are fun. I wonder how many we can answer though. Q: Name the four seasons. A: Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.
Discrimination: A Litmus Test That Counts As the time approaches for President Obama to choose a successor to Justice David Souter, the term "litmus test" will be heard throughout the land.
Exam Smoke: How can so many students go through 12 years of schooling without mastering basic skills? The real question a new study raises is not whether California should drop or alter its high school exit exam. Reigniting that old fight would just obscure the more crucial point: How can so many students go through 12 years of schooling without mastering basic skills?
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China hi-tech exam cheats jailedOne group of parents, some of them local officials, persuaded a teacher to fax them the questions once the exam got under way. They had organised six university students to answer them.
Exams flawed, standards slipping GSCE and A level papers fail to stretch brightest studentsLONDON — Serious flaws in the General Certificates of Secondary Education (GCSEs) and the A-levels were laid bare by the Britain government's exam watchdog on Friday, amid "significant concerns" that standards are slipping.
How to save on your health in ailing economyEven in an ailing economy, the one budget item you shouldn't stop nursing is your health. It's an oft-repeated sentiment, but easy to forget when copays are piling up.
Boy, 8, becomes youngest IT professional An eight-year-old boy has become the world's youngest IT professional after passing an exam with Microsoft.
Ads on Tests Add Up for TeacherTom Farber gives a lot of tests. He's a calculus teacher, after all. So when administrators at Rancho Bernardo, his suburban San Diego high school, announced the district was cutting spending on supplies by nearly a third, Farber had a problem.
Diabetic test taker says security paranoidLOWELL, Mass., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A diabetic woman said she was nearly prevented from taking a graduate school entrance exam in Lowell, Mass., when her insulin pump was mistaken for an iPod.
Mass fainting in Tanzanian examJunior school pupils in Tanzania experienced a mass fainting fit while taking their final year exams, an educational official has told the BBC. The 20 girls at Ali Hassan Mwinyi School in Tabora started fainting after finishing their first paper.
Poet's rhyming riposte leaves Mrs Schofield 'gobsmacked' "Today I am going to kill something," says the unnamed protagonist of Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure. "Anything. / I have had enough of being ignored and today / I am going to play God."
Cheating scandal forces 28,000 Berlin students to retake examBerlin authorities have launched a criminal investigation and are insisting 28,000 10th grade students retake their final mathematics test after discovering it was distributed in as many as 15 schools around the city before the test date.
1895 Eighth Grade Final Exam- Can you pass?Imagine a college student who went to public school trying to pass this test, even if the few outdated questions were modernized. Imagine their professors even being able to pass the 8th Grade.
Are You A Strong Or Weak Person? Check Your Alarm Clock!Dare to take this test about your personality of character? Just one minute and you can find out.
Student Is Given Extra Exam Time to Pump Breast MilkA Harvard student must be given extra break time during a medical licensing exam to pump breast milk, a Massachusetts appeals court judge ruled yesterday.
Student Is Given Extra Exam Time to Pump Breast Milk - New York TimesA Harvard student must be given extra break time during a medical licensing exam to pump breast milk, a Massachusetts appeals court judge ruled yesterday.
Routine self breast exams no longer recommendedThe Canadian Cancer Society announced Wednesday it is no longer recommending routine breast self-examinations as a way to detect cancer.
News: Bar exam was the test of time - OCRegister.comPaulina Bandy took, and failed, the California Bar Exam 13 times. She finally passed on her 14th try.
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Chinese pupils eclipse all other ethnic groups in English testsChildren of Chinese origin have outperformed every other British group in English by the age of 11, according to an ethnic breakdown of exam and test results published yesterday.
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