Closing down a failing school doesn’t lift its students’ test scores

A new study finds that students who attend under-performing schools actually do even worse on math and reading tests after a district shutters their school and moves them into another classroom. Closing persistently failing schools is one of the key reforms supported by the Obama administration. School closure “may seem like surrender, but in some

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Closing down a failing school doesn’t lift its students’ test scores

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