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 Posted: Sat 16:52, 03 Aug 2013 Post subject: persistently low achieving." |
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| graduation rates, along with a variety of test scores for various grade levels.Just for giggles, I put in my alma mater T.C. Williams, the only public high school in Alexandria, Virginia. Here's a screen grab of the district-level results:The interesting thing about making lots of data readily accessible: You learn things you didn't know that you didn't know. I was aware that my school had some serious failings. (In fact, it recently won the label"persistently low achieving.") But as a student there, I thought the experience was pretty OK. In fact,tory burch outlet, most people think their neighborhood public school is pretty OK, or even good.That's because they don't know better. As a student at T.C. Williams, I could see that the school was relatively clean and relatively safe. I got a good education there. What I couldn't see was that all around me students were failing to learn to read and write,jimmy choo sale, that they were dropping out at higher rates than almost anywhere else in the state. Nor could I see that Virginia's |
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