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Direct linkFarrington, Camille A.; Small, Margaret H. – American Youth Policy Forum, 2008
The chronic academic underperformance and student failure of most American urban high schools are actually created by the antiquated way that schools evaluate student academic performance and award (or deny) course credits. When the school leaders in a small inner-city high school in Chicago began to question the "received wisdom" of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Grading, High Schools, Urban Schools
