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Sacramento-area schools use race-based assemblies to push standardized tests

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.sacbee.com (Views: 71, Clicks: 0)  View Story

Schools are under increasing pressure to help students do well on "Standardized Testing and Reporting." It's actually a battery of tests that gauge how well schools are teaching their students collectively and in subsets that include race and special needs.

1 comments | Tags: california no child left behind act "heritage assemblies" | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

#1 by nitajo posted ago +0 apples bad good
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Laguna Creek Principal Doug Craig said dividing the students by race allowed staff to talk about test scores without making any one ethnic group feel singled out in a negative manner.  
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