Stacking the Deck Against Success Talking Points Memo
September 17—They never ignore the outside challenges their students face. Instead, educators at these schools are acutely aware of those challenges and are uncompromising in their efforts to help students achieve in spite of them.
Panel to Spur International Benchmarks Education Week
September 16—International benchmarking is the latest offshoot of the standards and accountability movement, which sparked the federal No Child Left Behind Act. “NCLB was a good start,” Mr. Linn said. “It’s now time to raise the bar.”
Colleges spend billions to prep freshmen Associated Press
September 15—In fact, a new study calculates, one-third of American college students have to enroll in remedial classes. The bill to colleges and taxpayers for trying to bring them up to speed on material they were supposed to learn in high school comes to between $2.3 billion and $2.9 billion annually.
Some California dropouts finish high school but don't succeed beyond, study finds The Los Angeles Times
September 12—But the California Dropout Research Project also reports that even dropouts who go back to school appear to stand little chance of success in college.
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