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Schools Apparently Need To Teach More Statistics
More than a quarter of U.S. schools are failing under terms of President Bush's No Child Left Behind law, according to preliminary state-by-state statistics reported to the U.S. Department of Education.At least 24,470 U.S. public schools, or 27 percent of the national total, did not meet the federal requirement for "adequate yearly progress" in 2004-2005. The percentage of failing schools rose by one point from the previous school year... ..."Most people thought that at this point in the law, we'd be seeing these numbers go way, way up" as standards toughen, said Petrilli, a former Education Department official who helped implement the law in 2002... Seems to me that if a school is already doing well, it is a lot harder to improve than if a school is doing poorly, so insisting that everybody improve doesn't make much sense. Second, why would student scores be going up if the standards keep getting tougher? They should be going down. Is 1% change in the margin for error?
Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-03-30 |
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