April 29, 2011, 12:05 AM
Compared to most states, California is performing abysmally when it comes to schools making "adequate yearly progress" as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind law. According to a new report from the Center on Education Policy, 61 percent of California schools failed...
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September 14, 2010, 12:05 AM
Underscoring the unworkability of California's current school "accountability" system, test scores at California schools are going up, at the same time as the number of failing schools as defined by the federal government are going up dramatically as well. The number of schools...
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September 3, 2010, 12:05 AM
Despite unprecedented national and state reforms over the past decade, the achievement gap between black and white students remains essentially unchanged in California, while the gap between Latino and white students has closed slightly but still remains alarmingly high. That's the...
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