USD Magazine, Winter 2003

ick a day, open a newspaper, and chances are somebody will be carrying on about the sorry

state of public schools. The stories have a depressingly similar refrain: kids are flunking, and the system is to blame. n recent months, much was made of a report that nearly two-thirds of high school students in :10-.Luke City failed to score high enough on a Is --- test to earn a diploma. In California, ther ballyhooed account noted that half the state's students met ·ciency in math, science

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