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This summary<\/a> regarding the practice of moving under-performing students from poorly performing schools resulted from research from the RAND corporation. This study addresses the extreme case – schools that have been closed.<\/p>\n

Students transferred to another school after their earlier school shut down performed worse on reading and math tests–even if the new school performed better overall in academic terms than the former one had. The study did find at least that a higher performing school would minimize a student’s drop in test scores–but the drop still occurred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what does this mean – perhaps that the school itself was only part of the problem.\u00a0Now what?<\/p>\n

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