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Advocate: Poor AzMERIT reading results reflect higher bar

James Anderson, Cronkite News//September 10, 2015//

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Advocate: Poor AzMERIT reading results reflect higher bar

Advocate: Poor AzMERIT reading results reflect higher bar

James Anderson, Cronkite News//September 10, 2015//

Greg Miller, president of the Arizona State Board of Education, said the new AzMERIT test that saw a large percentage of third-graders score poorly on reading...

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Tags: achievement measurement, expect more arizona, poor reading results, AZMERIT, education, Pearl Chang Esau, Reading, Arizona, Arizona’s Measurement of Educational Readiness, AIMS, third graders

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