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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Language: | English |
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Arizona State University
2008-01-01
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Series: | Education Policy Analysis Archives |
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Online Access: | http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/28 |