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Dr. Elaine Heffner: Reasons behind poor outcomes

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Controversy has raged for some years now about the quality of public education, specifically failure of graduation rates and poor achievement on the part of segments of the population. Schools were held accountable and the No Child Left Behind law led to an emphasis on testing to assess outcomes. Schools and then teachers were penalized for not reaching prescribed results.This approach led to some unexpected outcomes, specifically teachers “teaching to the test,” in other [...]

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