Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading

Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by KMag on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:51AM (#29185509)

I don't have enough context here. The first search result I found disputes claims of post-Katrina New Orleans schools doing better than similar cities[0], but maybe that's a biased sounce.

Do you have some links and maybe some elaboration on the point you're trying to make? From my short reading, it sounds like the narrative is that the disaster gave both sides the political cover they needed to make the concessions they've long known they needed, and allowed effective reform to happen. Is that what you're suggesting?

[0] https://www.aft.org/news/truth-about-new-orleans-schools-aft...

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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by truffdog on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:10AM (#29186729)

AFT is definitely biased- one of the big things they did post Katrina is union busting.

It's interesting their article doesn't include the normal dispute of the post-Katrina improvements, the fact that the cohort of students is very different.

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