exit exam n.— «Congress has enacted a federal school reform law known as No Child Left Behind that requires every state to test students in grades three-through-eight in math and English/language arts as a way of measuring national student...
ranksteering n.— «Even more alarming is what many critics refer to as “ranksteering,” which occurs when schools specifically tailor administrative decisions to move higher up on the list. The rankings encourage more per-student spending because it...
pay-for n.— «I think Chairman Greenspan mentioned today that he thought that it would be a slam dunk, no-brainer if you could find a pay-for for that, if you could make it so that it was revenue neutral. But I would argue that if you were to look...
hoghouse procedure attrib.— «At the urging of WSI, and led by Sen. Nick Hacker, R-Grand Forks, all the Republicans in the Senate, except Sen. Nething, butchered SB 2257. They stripped the bill of its meaningful reform measures using what is called...
can count on no hands v. phr.— « I was raised Orthodox and I can count on no hands the number of my friends and associates who know anything important about Torah. » —“Re: healing the rift between reform and orthodox” Usenet: soc.culture.jewish Mar...
self-licking ice cream cone n.— «Analysts are concerned not with a policy audience, but with the readership among their peers in the intelligence community and with fulfilling their quota of reports and assessments. Despite an elaborate...