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The clock is ticking.

California’s annual review of how students are doing are only minutes away.

Known as the STAR Program, for Standardized Testing and Reporting, it’s an alphabet soup of separate assessments, covering various subjects and administered to 4.7 million students in grades two through eleven.

The scores will tell us how much better or worse kids did in the 2012-2013 academic year against last year. Check back a minute or two after 11 a.m. (PDT) for the big reveal.

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