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Coppell school board votes to stop ranking high school students beyond top 10 percent | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Coppell school board votes to stop ranking high school students beyond top 10 percent | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Coppell school board votes to stop ranking high school students beyond top 10 percent



11:40 PM CDT on Monday, June 21, 2010

By KATHERINE LEAL UNMUTH / The Dallas Morning News
kunmuth@dallasnews.com
The Coppell school board voted Monday to stop ranking high school students who fall below the top 10 percent beginning in the next school year.
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Trustees voted 7-0 to make the change. Two other affluent and academically competitive school districts nearby, Highland Park and Carroll, already have made similar changes.
District officials say rankings hurt their students in the college admissions process because many of their low-ranked students are

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