Academics
In 2009 Spoon River Valley High School did not make Adequate Yearly Progress, with 41% of students meeting/exceeding state standards, on the Prairie State Achievement Examination, a state test that is part of the No Child Left Behind Act. In 2010 Spoon River Valley saw the largest increase on the PSAE (with 52% meeting/exceeding) for the entire Peoria Journal Star Area. The school's average high school graduation rate between 1999-2009 was 94%.
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
—Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)
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