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Re: Scrutinizing Gates's claims

There was a recent report on the NYC schools from WestEd that has lots of information. See http://www.wested.org/cs/we/view/rs/830
As to Early College High Schools, here is a good source for information http://nasbe.org/projects/standard/Standard_Dec_2006/Early_College_High_Schools_Standard_Dec.06.pdf 

I hope this helps.



I came across these comments by Bill Gates this week to a Senate  Committee
on "Strengthening American Competitiveness." I've excerpted a couple  of his
most "amazing" claims, involving spectacular gains in high school  graduation
and in acceptance to four-year colleges. Does anyone on the list know  more
about these "examples"? For example, who goes to these schools? How many of them require students/families to sign a contract as a precondition for acceptance 
and meet its requirements or get booted out? How are the "average  graduation
rates" calculated? And so on.
Thanks.
Craig Gordon


Thursday, March  08, 2007
Bill Gates: U.S. Senate Committee Hearing on  Strengthening American
Competitiveness