Avoidable losses: High-stakes accountability and the dropout crisis.

In the state of Texas, whose standardized, high-stakes test-based accountability system became the model for the nation's most comprehensive federal education policy, more than 135,000 youth are lost from the state's high schools every year. Dropout rates are highest for African American a...

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Main Authors: Linda McSpadden McNeil, Eileen Coppola, Judy Radigan, Julian Vasquez Heilig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arizona State University 2008-01-01
Series:Education Policy Analysis Archives
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Online Access:http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/28