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A Review of "Avoidable Losses: High Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis." REL Technical Brief. REL 2008-No. 001
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Wilkins, C. – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest (NJ1), 2008
REL Southwest received a request to review the report "Avoidable Losses: High Stakes Accountability and the Dropout Crisis" to assess the soundness of the study methodology and the appropriateness of the conclusions drawn in the report. The review found that conclusions drawn in this study cannot be generalized and are significantly…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Ethnography, Statistical Analysis