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Showing posts with label academic standards. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Two Articles by Tomas Toch in the Washington Monthly

Standards Issue
President Obama wants to lower the dropout rate. He also
wants to raise academic standards. But does one come at the
expense of the other?



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