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North Carolina To Make Crummy Schools Great Again By Lowering The Bar

By Helen Raleigh This grade system change in North Carolina seems a desperate move by a bunch of adults to cover up their own failures. Hopefully, no other state will follow suit. How can we improve America’s K-12 education? How can we hold schools accountable for their performance? Forget about hiring better-quality teachers, smaller class sizes, longer school days and more rigorous curriculum. North Carolina has been making poor-performing schools “great” again simply by inflating the grade scale. State Democrat lawmakers are considering a bill that will make a permanent grade scale change for all state public schools. The Tar Heel State has… View Article