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States' school performance data can be deceptive
- 04-29-2011
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By Louis Freedberg/California Watch
Compared to most states, California is performing abysmally when it comes to schools making "adequate yearly progress" as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind law. According to a new report from the Center on Education Policy, 61 percent of California schools failed to make adequate yearly progress in raising test scores as required by the federal No Child Left Behind law. By comparison, a mere 5 percent of schools in Texas failed to do so. But the disparities between California and other states actually say little about how well the the Golden State's schools are doing. Instead, they highlight a major deficiency in the law: It requires states to set their own standards for academic proficiency, as well as their own yearly targets, making state-to-state comparisons almost impossible. (more...)
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