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For 50-plus years, students in grades 4, 8, and 12 have taken national standardized tests that assess reading and math ...

It's said that statistics don't lie, but they often don't tell the whole truth, either. A Cornell statistics expert has come up with a method he believes can boost statistical power and significantly ...