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adequacy  

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  • Adequacy refers to the provision of strategies and programs, and their subsequent funding, to educate students to high standards. Adequacy is not a comparative measure or a relative concept; that is, it does not depend on what one school does, compared with another. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent; Adequacy]

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