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Re: Different National Education Systems

#3523 11/06/01 07:59 AM

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>Such tests given at various grade levels would be controversial

Why? That seems to me to be the main difference. Our externally validated exams are all about grades. I suppose that we accept them because they have always been that way.

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Ahhh.... school days shanks 12/26/00 09:32 AM

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back to US schools. of troy 11/07/01 06:34 PM

Re: back to US schools. Wordwind 11/11/01 11:50 PM

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