No right to degree Don't buy exit-exam foes' 'social justice' talk

San Diego Union Tribune ^ | August 22, 2005 | Union Tribune Editorial

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The Harvard Civil Rights Project did Californians an enormous favor in March when it released a report establishing that high-school dropout rates in the state were more than double what school bureaucrats claimed.

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If anything made plain the insincerity of the teachers union-dominated education establishment in trying to help schools improve, it was this proof that the establishment fudged the numbers.

That's why it's so dismaying to see the Harvard group throw its weight behind the educrats' continuing crusade to undermine the centerpiece of California school reforms: making passage of a comprehensive exit exam a condition for a high school diploma.

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Good lead editorial today in the UT. Rightfully critical of the Harvard types and the education bureaucracy. Fails to point out that attempts to reduce the accountability of minority students actually increases the probability that they will remain poor.

[Kevin OMalley]

We are discussing ways to fast track kids through high school to avoid the liberal agenda, drugs and other idiocies:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315730/posts?page=84#84

Unfortunately my thread title was not well thought out, because some parents might instinctively skip over it due to attached stigma, whether real or imagined.