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What went wrong at D.C.'s high-achieving Wilson High School?

As parents, community leaders and school officials puzzled over the precipitous drop in standardized test scores at one of the District’s leading public high schools, Emma Buzbee had a logical explanation.

Buzbee, a senior at Wilson High School, said she and other high-performing students either refused to take the test or intentionally flubbed it to focus on Advanced Placement tests, which were given the following week.

A high score on the AP exam can strengthen a college application, earn a student college credit and exempt them from certain required college courses. The standardized test administered by the District, on the other hand, has no effect on students.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/what-went-wrong-at-dcs-high-achieving-wilson-high-school/2016/09/02/c3b3fd9e-704d-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html

 

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