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211:. The only uncertainty is whether to hyphenate or not. You might also check the Google results above. Personally, I've seen and heard dozens of news reports on the topic, and I've never heard it called anything else. Education news sources like EdWeek have lots of articles on high-stakes testing. I'd say it's as much a term of art as "ozone layer".
168:, which mandates such testing in U.S. schools. Some of the examples in the article may not be the best, but the overview looks pretty sound, and the summary of major sticking points at the end seems right on target. The article definitely needs more sourcing, but the notability of the topic would be difficult or impossible to contest.
233:. That can be a formula for an article that can hardly avoid "original research by synthesis". But the term does seem to have a large enough footprint that just deleting the article no longer seems a good option. I would just appeal to those who work on it to be extra scrupulous about avoiding original synthesis. --
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