Uninformed about students experience in urban classrooms,

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Uninformed about students’ experience in urban classrooms, critics often condemn schools’ performance gauged by  an index, such as standardized test scores, that are called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as that  in higher-level reasoning.
A. an index, such as standardized test scores, that are called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as that
B. an index, such as standardized test scores, that are called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as what is made
C. an index, such as standardized test scores, that is called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as what is made
D. a so-called objective index, such as standardized test scores, that can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as what is made
E. a so-called objective index, such as standardized test scores, that can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as that

vyassaptarashi · Answer

= E

"Objective index " is correctly used and at the end "such as that" correctly refers to "measurable progress".

piyatiwari · Answer

Simplyfing Sentence:

critics often condemn schools’ performance gauged by **an index that are called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as that** in higher-level reasoning.

Index 
- is objective
- can be quantified
- overlooks less measurable progress

First of all, 'index' needs singular verb, so eliminating options A and B which use 'are'.

In C D and E,

C. an index, such as standardized test scores, that is called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as what is made
D. a so-called objective index, such as standardized test scores, that can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as what is made
E. a so-called objective index, such as standardized test scores, that can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as that

C is wordy.

We are down to D and E,

In D "what is made" is unnecessary.

So E it is.

piyatiwari · Answer

Since you named the post "As Vs Like"?

- 'like' is a preposition and 'as' is a conjunction.

- A preposition is “a word that ‘positions’ or situates words in relation to one another.” Examples are in, around, and through.
- A conjunction is, simply, “a connecting word.” Common conjunctions are and, but, and or (1).

Golden rule: use 'like' when no verb follows.

Like means "same form, appearance, kind, character" and is followed by a noun or noun phrase.

As means "in the manner" and is followed by a clause (subj + verb).

My brother is like me. (prep.)
My brother thinks as I do (I think). (conj.)

He's smart like a fox. (prep.)
He is as smart as a fox . (idiom)

He's more like forty plus. (adv)
He writes as a man in his forties writes. (conj.)

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