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    Government's Goofy Grades


    How can a school receive a Blue Ribbon for excellence one year and be slapped with a label of "failing" the next? Moreover, how can Michigan rank dead last in the country with more than 1,500 "failing" schools?

    New federal labels are misleading parents and others into thinking that a full one-third of the state's public schools aren't adequately serving their children. That's simply not the case.

    The standards are the newest ingredient in a muddled stew of numbers and labels that do nothing for the quality of schools in Michigan or the students and teachers in them. . . .

    — Editorial
    Government's goofy grades: Quality of Michigan schools not reflected in federal 'failure' list
    Grand Rapids Press
    July 18, 2002
    http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news-0/1027003540137850.xml

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