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When the Minnesota Department of Education releases its list of under-performing schools on Thursday, the list is expected to be longer than it was last year--a lot longer. That's because this is the first year the list will be based on test scores instead of graduation and attendance rates. Will the new numbers reveal an underlying problem that previous measures had missed or are they exaggerating the trouble with Minnesota's schools? We also examine other education issues facing Minnesota including the racial gap in ACT scores and the controversy over teacher re-assignments in Minneapolis.

Back to school: the under-performers list, the racial gap and teacher re-assignments

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