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Under No Child Left Behind, 6,000 failing schools have been identified. Yet, in the vast majority of cases, state and local authorities have done nothing about them.  In steps Arne Duncan, the new education secretary.  Duncan hopes to get to a point where 1,000 failing schools are “turned around” each year. [...]

An article in the New York Times (3/25/09) reported that a growing number of school districts have adopted standards-based report cards.  These new report cards have replaced the traditional letter grades with number grades. The lowest grade is 1, which represents that a student is not meeting standards.  The highest [...]