In the early 1980s, the State requested, then required, that school districts assess basic skills using tests that the State provided and scored. The testing was driven by a nationwide fear that public schools were graduating poorly educated students unable to compete in the international economy. Newton's Annual City Report regularly touted its students' "significantly higher than school systems nationally" scores on SAT and other standardized …
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