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Past Educational Opportunity Reports
The ABCs of saving a failing school
- 07-06-2010
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By Claudio Sanchez/NPR (audio)
If a school is consistently failing and kids aren't learning, shut it down. Start over with new teachers and administrators willing to do something dramatically different. Closing failing schools and turning them around has been in vogue since No Child Left Behind, and now the Obama Administration is embracing the idea. It's even offering millions of dollars to school districts to help them do it. (more...)
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