Dropout Data Raise Questions on 2 Fronts

Jay Matthews:

A collision of those two views by prominent scholars was inevitable, and in the past several weeks it has hit the education policy world in an explosion of articles, e-mails and public debates, some quite heated. Experts disagree over who is right, and some say the truth may be somewhere in between. But the argument has aggravated a widespread feeling that information on how many children are disappearing from public schools is not nearly as accurate as it should be.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 22, 2006 11:01 PM
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