Thursday, July 14, 2005

Encouraging Standardized Test Results 

Sam Dillon of the New York Times reports the following important finding today:

America's elementary school students made solid gains in both reading and math in the first years of this decade, while middle school students made less progress and older teenagers hardly any, according to test results issued today that are considered the best measure of the nation's long-term education trends.

Nine-year-old minority students made the most gains on the test, administered by the United States Department of Education. In particular, young black students significantly narrowed the historic gap between their math and reading scores and those of higher-achieving whites, who also made significant gains.
Not all news is good however. The story goes on to say that the achievement gap between whites and blacks has stayed about the same in high school, and test scores for all students for these grades points to a real problem.

The Secretary of Education credits, of course, NCLB with the educational gains. I'll credit school choice.

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