The Education Policy Center conducts research on education reforms involving accountability, school vouchers, standards, after-school programs, technology, teacher quality, and the new increased flexibility in using federal funds.
Elementary school students with limited English skills are largely concentrated in 10 percent of schools. Add poverty to this educational landscape and meeting the requirements of the No Child Left Behind law gets even tougher.
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The 71 percent of California’s high school class of 2002 with diplomas don’t adequately reflect the population. Notably fewer come from central city districts and racially segregated communities, where less than two-thirds graduate.
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Issue in Focus: Education in the Age of Accountability