Our Say: Low Grade-Point Averages Reflect Continuing Problem
Maryland Gazette › August 21, 2006
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For all the attention recently paid to state standardized tests, some parents think there's a better measurement of academic achievement in county high schools: The numbers on academic eligibility for sports and extracurricular activities.
Those parents are right. But there's a problem: The numbers are dismaying.See the full content of this document
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Our Say: Low Grade-Point Averages Reflect Continuing Problem
And this is nothing new. The numbers were roughly the same when we took up this issue in this space nine years ago.
When the sch...See the full content of this document
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