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Graduation rate is meaningless in a system of social promotion

By CHRIS POWELL According to the state Education Department, people in Connecticut should rejoice that the state’s four-year high school graduation rate has just exceeded 90% for the first time since the 2010-11 school year. But the data is nonsense, just as it was in 2011. New Haven piously presumes it should expropriate property Tax-shiftingContinue reading “Graduation rate is meaningless in a system of social promotion”