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Back to School: The American Student

Link: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/back.to.school/

A special report from CNN provides profiles of U.S. students, from kindergarten through college, and the specific issues of standardized testing and curricula, budget and consequent program cuts, and teaching current events. Additionally, it presents brief highlights from the No Child Left Behind Act (2002). The site includes statistics about class size, dropout rates, disciplinary problems, and state by state expenditures per student and student-teacher ratios.

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• Educational Type: Data set
• Educational Type: Educator's guide
• Educational Type: Primary source
• Network/channel: Technology Applications for Learning: facilitate collaboration or resource sharing
• Network/channel: Technology Applications for Learning: develop or conduct evaluation or accountability effort

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