Too early to tell if Dallas ISD's new standards are curbing dropouts

By Kent Fischer, The Dallas Morning News, Monday, March 2, 2009

Dallas school officials were widely lampooned last fall after creating new grading standards that critics said eliminated deadlines, minimized homework and gave students automatic retests on flunked exams.

 

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