If you've been keeping track, this post is coming up out of order. I know that I have the option of pre-dating my posts and I'm taking full advantage of that. So while the next few posts were written after the fact, these were thoughts I had on those particular days and I'm just transposing written notes into my blog. But I really felt that I had a few things to say about what went on from the beginning of April to the end of May.
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The LA Times featured a four-part series on high school dropouts. Reporters looked at high school students at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys. Very informative. It does beg the question, how are high school dropout rates calculated? How can school districts say one number and then an outside evaluator will say a completely different and usually higher number?
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ETS decided to scrap its plans to revise the GRE. After it was deemed susceptible to fraud after foreign students built databases of oft-repeated GRE questions, the academic world awaited a new version. But ETS said that it would have been too expensive, too long, and too hard to administer. Read more here.
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