Re: Eight-Year Study

[aburke5054@aol.com]

Oregon just released figures showing that a third of students don't 
receive a diploma after four years of high school.  Two months 
previously the state  reported graduation rates around 84 percent.  The 
Eight-Year Study did not address the problem of a system that is slow 
to own up to its shortcomings, but that is what we need and thank 
goodness NCLB forces that hand, even to the limited degree that it 
does.

Art

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From: gerald bracey <gbracey@q.com>
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Sent: Sat, Jul 4, 2009 1:51 pm
Subject: [arn-l] Eight-Year Study



    For those of you not hunched over your grills, Jay Mathews has a 
brief
summary of the chapter "The Lost Lessons of the Eight-Year Study" from 
my
new book, Education Hell: Rhetoric vs. Reality.  He lists them in the 
order
in which they appear in the book but asks readers to re-rank them 
according
to their own sense of importance.  
www.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle.



Jerry=