>Validation? What the school wants is high exam grades, and they can't
>water down the tests to boost the results so they have to push the
>students.

You can in Texas (no offense intended toward those who have gone through Texas's schools, I blame the bureaucrats (again)). State-wide standardized test scores went up, while SAT scores went down. Hmm.... Something smells fishy...

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Y. Michael Chang
Laguna Hills, CA