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20 years of reform have done little for struggling California schools
- 03-26-2010
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Blog by Corey G. Johnson/California Watch
Despite new curriculums, smaller class sizes and more reforms than you could shake a stick at, a sobering new study by the Brookings Institution has found that most of California's low-performing schools in 1989 remained that way 20 years later. The research by Brookings' Brown Center on Education Policy compared the state test scores of 1,156 schools from 1989 to 2009. Of the 290 schools that were in the lowest categories two decades ago, 184 (63.4 percent) scored similarly last year. About one in four moved up slightly. Only four schools (1.4 percent) went from the bottom to the top in test performance during that 20-year time period. (more...)
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