Tag: Bill Hammond

• Texas Lies to Feds: Enrontize Federal Graduation Data

  7–10 minutes

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  January 14, 2013

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  Accountability, Dropout

  At the end of 2012, with much fanfare Texas trumpeted that its 86% Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) was 4th in the nation. (For more on the ACGR go here). This would be a miraculous achievement for the Lone Star State. As we show in Is Texas leading its peers and the nation?: A Decadal Analysis of…