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		<title>Information Quality problems impact reporting in US Education</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/25/information-quality-problems-impact-reporting-in-us-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via The Miami Herald comes a story that highlights a number of impacts of poor quality information in key processes. In Oklahoma, schools are placed on an “improvement list” if they fail to meet standards for two consecutive years. Once on the list the school show progress in improving standards for two years before they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No child left behind (except for those that are)</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/08/no-child-left-behind-except-for-those-that-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Sarsfield shares with us this classic tale of IQ Trainwreck-ry from Atlanta Georgia. An analysis of student enrollment and transfer data carried out by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reveals a shocking number of students who appear to be dropping out of school and off the radar in Georgia.  This suggests that the dropout rate may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish State Exam leak being studied.</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/05/irish-state-exam-leak-being-studied/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A serious complication has emerged in Leaving Certificate exams run by the Irish State each year.. An exam Superindtendent accidentally distributed the wrong paper in one exam centre earlier this week. He put out the exam questions for Paper 2 of the English examination, which wasn&#8217;t the subject being examined. The paper was, it seems, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead girl given truancy warning</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/03/27/dead-girl-truancy-warning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of #dataquality twitterers Steve Tuck and Stephen Bonner comes this story from the BBC about a school in Cheshsire whose parents received a truancy notice about their daughter which threatened to ban her from her end of year prom for being over 30% below the target attendance rate for students. The young girl, Megan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents of dead children asked to choose school for them</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/12/07/parents-of-dead-children-asked-to-choose-school-for-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/12/07/parents-of-dead-children-asked-to-choose-school-for-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Underdown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to BBC News Gloucestershire County Council has sent out letters to the parents of a number of children who had died asking them to choose a school as they approach school starting age! This has resulted in a good deal of pain and grief for the parents and a significant embarrassment to the council and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monkey See&#8230; Monkey Do</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/02/05/monkey-see-monkey-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2008/02/05/monkey-see-monkey-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Nigel Thomas comes this story of an IQ Trainwreck that eminates originally from the hallowed halls of Harvard University, where monkeys swing freely through the Ivy (original story previously published at www.thedailywtf.com as &#8220;I&#8217;ve Got the Monkey Now&#8221;). The Harvard Business School Publishing redeveloped and relaunched their website back in 1999. Part of the [...]]]></description>
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