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Download full textReardon, Sean F. – 1996
Data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS) are used to examine the relationship between minimum competency testing and dropout rates. Proponents of such testing have argued that minimum competency tests provide incentives for schools and students, but opponents have argued that such tests lead to a low-level basic skills…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research, Dropouts
Wolf, Dennie Palmer; Reardon, Sean F. – 1993
In discussing educational equity and Project Performance and Assessment Collaboratives for Education (PACE), the authors present an argument, a detailed illustration, and a set of imperatives for education in the United States. The argument examines the last century and a half of American educational practice to illustrate why we cannot simply…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Attitudes
