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Among the "talented tenth," those in the top 10 percent of test takers, reading scores have dropped four points since 1971 and math scores have not budged since first measured in 1978. So say the latest (2004) results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the nation's report card.
At the other end of the scale, dropout rates have actually increased since 1990, rising to 30 percent of all 17-year-olds. Among blacks the dropout rate is running somewhere between 50 and 60 percent, a sad fact that remains one of the best-kept secrets in American education.See the full content of this document
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Report Card Reveals Failing High Schools
Because few people know the facts, in a recently issued book Michael Dyson scolds Bill Cosby for (accurately) lamenting the fact tha...
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