Federal education officials plan to release a report that concludes that many states hold students to relatively low education standards in order to make the federal grade. (Schools that dont make adequate yearly progress risk being flagged as underperforming.) Education experts Frederick Hess and Eva Baker raise their hands with ideas on how states can score better results. Read more about their views in this article from USA Today.
Posted by Steve Groft on 07 June 2007 in Issues in the News , Opinion , Policy