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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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 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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