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This document contains preliminary state-level results for the 2000-2001 North Carolina state testing program. No conclusions about achievement are drawn in this report, although percentages achieving at given Achievement Levels are given for the end-of-grade tests. The Grade 3 Pretest is a multiple-choice reading and mathematics test administered to students in the first 3 weeks of grade 3. This pretest was given to more than 102,000 students in the 2000-2001 school year. The End-of-Grade tests were developed in alignment with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. These state-normed tests were administered to students in grades 3 through 8 at the end of the school year. The smallest class participating, grade 8, contained approximately 97,000 students. The North Carolina High School Comprehensive Test in reading and mathematics, administered to students in grade 10, was given to more than 80,490 students. Percentages of students at different achievement levels are given. End-of-course tests have been developed for five high school core courses (Algebra; Biology; Economic, Legal, and Political Systems; English I; and U.S. History), and more than 280,000 students took these tests. Optional tests have been developed for other subjects, and tables present results for each of the tests. (Contains 23 tables and 6 figures.) (SLD)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert