Making the grade
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Teachers are increasingly using portfolios to evaluate students. These portfolios, which are a compilation of students' work such as math exercises, writing assignments, book reports, photographs and videotapes, are replacing report cards in assessing students' progress, since the latter do not accurately reflect a child's development.
Publication Name: Parenting
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0890-247X
Year: 1995
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Afrocentric schools: separate but better?
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Public schools in predominantly African-American neighborhoods are embracing Afrocentric curricula, focusing on achievements of blacks in all scholastic fields. African-American children are motivated to learn, but detractors say it gives a distorted vision of history.
Publication Name: Parenting
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0890-247X
Year: 1993
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Are public schools making the grade?
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Author Jonathan Kozol talks about how property taxes provide educational funding for affluent neighborhoods while poor ones are deprived.
Publication Name: Parenting
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0890-247X
Year: 1992
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