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Thursday, May 22, 2008

In the News: Public Schools

via msnbc where the entire article/story can be found:

Many schools unlikely to meet education goals
By the 2013-14 school year, students must pass tests in math, reading

updated 9:11 p.m. PT, Mon., May. 19, 2008

WASHINGTON - Pink slips for principals and teachers. School-funded tutoring for poor kids. Schools are increasingly looking at those kind of consequences for failing to raise math and reading scores.

The federal No Child Left Behind law says that by the 2013-14 school year all students must pass state tests in these subjects.

About half of the states have steady annual goals for increasing the percentage of students passing, or working at their proper grade level. But the other half set the bar very low early on, and starting about now expect big annual achievement gains, according to a report being released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy.

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