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Schools fare better this year, tests show.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-AUG-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Schools fare better this year, tests show.(Schools)(Seventy-four percent of Oregon schools make `adequate yearly progress' despite a glitch)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard

Despite considerable hand-wringing last spring about the potential impact of a hasty switch from computerized to paper-and-pencil assessments, Oregon schools fared better than in previous years on one critical academic measure.

Nearly three of every four schools made "adequate yearly progress" under the federal No Child Left Behind law, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the state Department of Education.

The 74 percent success rate - which may rise or fall a bit when the final report comes out in October - is the highest in the five years of federal ratings. In 2005-06, 70 percent of schools passed muster, up slightly from the previous year.

Among local schools, there were few changes in ratings. Slightly fewer middle and high schools - 28 vs. 33 - missed the mark this year compared with last year, and no elementary school did so.

Three Eugene-Springfield area middle schools - Kelly and Cascade in Eugene...

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