Can DC keep middle schoolers from teetering on the ninth-grade cliff?
Publication Name :
The Washington Post
Publication Date:
September 6, 2011
Post education writer Bill Turque covered the DC Council’s roundtable on middle school. DC Council Chairman Kwame Brown cited research by DC Action for Children that shows that more than half of students in DC who drop out of school do so in the ninth grade. Also, proficient on the DC CAS equates to “below basic” on the national test that measures student achievement.
