Our use of annual gain scores provides an
estimate of treatment effects based on the extent to which students at each school do better or
worse than would be expected, given their
initial test scores.
12:57 p.m. Updated Representative Edward J. Markey, the Democrat of Massachusetts who heads the House select committee on energy independence and global warming, has released a BP document providing an early
worst - case
estimate of the oil flow up the casing of the wrecked Gulf of Mexico well that is dozens of times higher
than the company's
initial public
estimates.