Leaving Our Children Behind

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Social Issues

 

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Justine W

 

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April 24, 2015

 

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University

 

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One adverse effect of these high standards is that they substantially weaken the safety nets for under-performing students in the nation’s schools. As schools struggle to meet the act’s impossibly high goals, many incentives present themselves such as keeping underperforming students out, or to hold back those already in the school...
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A disturbing example of this comes from King Middle School in Ohio. At this school the average scores increased from the 70th to the 72nd percentile from the 2002 to the 2003 school year. In addition, the amount of students in attendance who met the standards increased from 66 to 80 percent. While, on the surface, these results seem to indicate that the act is doing exactly what it is supposed to, there is one piece of information that is deeply troubling...
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