State education officials say that they have not made it easier to pass the tests, and that the scoring thresholds have dropped for a simple reason: the test questions themselves have actually become harder.
Synopsis. American gymnast Shawn Johnson was born in Des Moines, Iowa on January 19, 1992. Sixteen years later, she won gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics, which took place in Beijing, China. After winning season 8 of Dancing with the Stars in 2009, Johnson began training for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Jack Johnson was 68 when he died on June 10, 1946 in a crash near Raleigh, N.C. Harry Chapin, a 1970s folk-rock composer and performer, was killed when the car he was driving was hit from behind by a tractor-trailer on the Long Island Expressway in Jericho, N.Y., on July 16, 1981. He was 38 years old.