October 28, 2013
Banished By High-Stakes Testing
When standardized test scores make of break a school, there’s a huge incentive to kick out the low-scoring kids. The illegal shunting of poor performers from public school to GED programs has become so common that it has earned the nickname “pushout.” Debbie Nathan follows three Texas teenagers who were pushed out and examines the toll this exclusion has taken on their lives.
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