Tuesday, December 20, 2011
"Record numbers fail to clear No Child bar"
We continue to pay ever increasing amounts for this non-performance.
Could it be that money is NOT the answer to better education?...
Could it be that money is NOT the answer to better education?...
Ben Wolfgang writes about the latest statistics at WashingtonTimes.com:
"The numbers keep getting worse for the nation’s education system.
In the 2010-11 academic year, 48 percent of public schools — a record high — failed to meet the “adequate yearly progress” benchmarks established by the No Child Left Behind act, according to a new study by the Center on Education Policy, a nonpartisan think tank.
D.C. Public Schools ranked near the bottom, with 87 percent failing to clear the bar, the report says. Only Missouri was worse, with 88 percent of its schools falling short.
Wisconsin schools performed the best, with 11 percent missing the mark. In Maryland and Virginia, 45 percent and 62 percent, respectively, didn’t make adequate yearly progress."
