Ginsburg said the agency considered the possibility of testing pilots individually but concluded that even state-of-the-art tests couldn't screen out risky pilots over age 60.
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About two-thirds of city eighth graders failed the English language arts test, and about three-quarters failed in math; half the fourth graders failed the math test.
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And in many ways, Deputy Education Commissioner James Kadamus said, the new English Language Arts test is more secure than the Degrees of Reading Power test it replaced.
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Last year, 25 of the states'113 teacher education programs fell below that mark on the liberal arts test, 8 of them colleges of the City University of New York.
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A question on a multiple-choice portion of this year's New York state fourth-grade language arts test asked students to draw a conclusion based on a reading passage about sore throats.
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Even with its low-income and immigrant students, even operating at 120 percent of capacity, M . S . 45 has managed to exceed citywide averages on math and language arts tests.
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The 4th graders take a Math, English Language Arts, and Open Writing Prompt, while the 5th graders take the Mathematics, Science and Technology / Engineering, and the English Language Arts Tests.
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Even with its low-income and immigrant students, even operating at 120 percent of capacity, M . S . 54 has managed to exceed citywide averages on math and language arts tests.
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The test, called the English Language Arts test, is based on new standards that require fourth graders not only to read proficiently but also to write analytically about what they have read.
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In the language arts test as a whole, students appeared to be able to read and comprehend the material and answer multiple-choice questions, said David C . Hespe, the state's education commissioner.
