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Direct linkCavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2005
This article describes an academic choice program in Texas public schools where 8th graders are being given a choice of three different academic plans to follow through graduation, two of which are distinctively tougher than the third. Policymakers in Texas, Arkansas, and Indiana are opting to raise academic standards by making a college-prep…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Public Schools, High Schools, Academic Standards
