http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/02/take-the-points.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:00:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/02/take-the-points.html/comment-page-1#comment-152532 Doug Palmieri Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:07:08 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=5440#comment-152532 While graduation rates in NOLA may not be great, there is a sense of optimism and renewal presently that had been missing. Whether this equates to better test results and or better graduation rates remains to be seen. Yet, I can't help but think that they are now on the right track in New Orleans. Let's just hope it doesn't take another natural disaster to encourage / motivate more of those in position to take part ownership in the success of their schools and children. While graduation rates in NOLA may not be great, there is a sense of optimism and renewal presently that had been missing. Whether this equates to better test results and or better graduation rates remains to be seen. Yet, I can’t help but think that they are now on the right track in New Orleans. Let’s just hope it doesn’t take another natural disaster to encourage / motivate more of those in position to take part ownership in the success of their schools and children.

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