Apr 02 2008
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Ed Week: Spellings: States Will Have to Follow Uniform Graduation-Rate Formula
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says there should — and will — be one standard for calculating graduation rates whether you’re up here in Indiana or across the county in California or down south in Florida.
A formula isn’t set in stone, though it sounds similar to Indiana’s current system. But it will be interesting to watch here in Indiana, where 2006 was the first year the state used a revised formula, to see how this impacts the schools’ and state’s ability to track progress on a measurement that keeps changing its calculation method.
