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Starr Defends Highland Elementary School's Turnaround
The Montgomery County Public Schools superintendent repudiated an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that investigated cheating at National Blue Ribbon Schools.
Do statistically improbable gains in standardized testing scores indicate that a school is cheating in some way? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution turned the spotlight on Wheaton’s Highland Elementary School this weekend in a story about National Blue Ribbon Schools, “Cheating our children: Suspect scores put award’s integrity in question.” Highland Elementary School was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2009, the government’s highest educational honor. But just four years earlier, the state of Maryland had threatened to take away county control of the school because of poor scores. Although the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article never directly accused Highland of tampering with results, it cast doubt on whether the school honestly …
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6:24 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
I find it very offensive to down grade a school because of the dynamic view point of the financial status, I am a mother who volunteers at the school and participates daily in assisting the staff. It's majority Hispanic culture and a mixture of African American and some Caucasians, so because its Not dominated by the Caucasian it race its considered low/middle class, poor unintelligent children… more ›