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No Child Left Behind
Blue Ribbon Schools Program
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige has established the No Child Left
Behind Blue Ribbon Schools Program to honor those elementary and
secondary schools in the United States that make significant progress in
closing the achievement gap or whose students achieve at very high levels.
The program recognizes and presents as models elementary and secondary
schools that meet either of two assessment criteria. First, it recognizes
schools that have at least 40 percent of their students from disadvantaged
backgrounds that dramatically improve student performance to high levels
on standardized national or state assessments. Second, it recognizes
schools that, regardless of the background of the students in the school,
are in the top 10 percent of schools in the nation (as measured by
standardized national assessments) or in the state (as measured by
standardized state assessments). These No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon
Schools will be honored at a ceremony in Washington, DC, in the fall of
2003.
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