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Friday, March 21, 2008
Is our children learning yet?
By Cliff Schecter:It should be enough to get your blood boiling: [M]any states use an inflated graduation rate for federal reporting requirements under the No Child Left Behind law and a different one at home. As a result, researchers say, federal figures obscure a dropout epidemic so severe that only about 70% of the 1 million American students who start ninth grade each year graduate four years later. Everything BushCo touches - everything - ends up a disaster.
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As prone as I am to condemn the Bush administration for its never-ending list of serious failings and deliberate wrongdoing, on this one there's much more that's wrong than NCLB or other Bush idiocy.
High school dropout rates have been scandalous for decades. It's a problem rooted in family deficiencies, community weaknesses and societal problems as much or more than failures of schools and government.
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High school dropout rates have been scandalous for decades. It's a problem rooted in family deficiencies, community weaknesses and societal problems as much or more than failures of schools and government.
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