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LR school paid a visit
The No. 3 man at the U.S. Department of Education
on Friday defended the federal No Child Left Behind Act that last year
singled out 25 Arkansas schools and 8,000 schools nationally as needing
improvement because of chronically low test scores. BY CYNTHIA HOWELL
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Howell, Cynthia. “LR School Paid a
Visit.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. March 8, 2003. (pages 1B, 9B) The No. 3 man at the U.S. Department of Education on
Friday defended the federal No Child Left Behind Act that last year
singled out 25 Arkansas schools and 8,000 schools nationally as needing
improvement because of chronically low test scores.
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The federal act, which is President Bush’s
education reform initiative, requires annual state testing of students in
grades three through eight in literacy and math. Arkansas schools were
identified as low achieving for the first time this year based on low
Stanford Achievement Test scores that date back to 1998.
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In all, 10 Little Rock schools were identified
as academically troubled by the state and 202 students sought transfers. |
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