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Report: Schools at the bottom stay at the bottom
- 03-17-2010
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By Terence Chea/San Francisco Chronicle
As the Obama administration seeks to turn around failing schools, a new report on California schools underscores the difficulty of boosting the academic achievement of low-performing schools. The study by the Brown Center of Education Policy compares the rankings of 1,156 public schools in California in 1989 with their rankings in 2009. The researchers found that 63 percent of the 290 schools that ranked in the bottom quarter in 1989 were still at the bottom 20 years later. Only 1.4 percent of those schools moved to the top quarter. In contrast, the study found that 63 percent of the 289 schools that ranked in the top quarter in 1989 were still at the top in 2009. And only 2.4 percent fell to the bottom quarter. (more...)
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