Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-na-obama-education25-2009feb25,0,2871040.story?track=rss Los Angeles Times, by Frank James "Right now, three-quarters of the fastest-growing occupations require more than a high school diploma," Obama said. "And yet, just over half of our citizens have that level of education. We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation. And half of the students who ...
Source: The Denver Post 12/21/2008 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_11280071 Educators and Administrators are watching intently how this next experiement upon learning methods will effect graduation rates and the meeting of standards. This experiment by the Adams 50 district will remove age-based, developmental-based, grade levels and exchanged them for academic, achievement-based levels. At first glance this could be a "small ...
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