If you’ve been following this series, you’ve noticed that pretty much all of the trends for all subgroups in 8th grade math and reading have been flat — essentially no change after 20 years and billions of dollars of ill-spent money on ‘reforms’ that most teachers have found to be utterly worthless.
This graph, however, for 4th grade students in reading in DC and elsewhere, does show a little bit of improvement in DC only for the period 2013-now. However, there have also been drops. Mostly, there is not much change at all. But if you look very carefully you can see a small increase during that time period – just as there were small increases for DC’s hispanic students BEFORE mayoral control.
How good are your eyes?
EDIT: My bad: this was reading, not math. It’s fixed now, and I edited some of the text. GFB, 4/17/2018, 2:12 pm
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Isn’t it likely that with rising rents in DC, fewer poor kids of all ethnicities are able to stay in the city? And as a result, kids of all ethnicities are more likely to get outside help in filling in the fundamentals in math that the DC common core standards delay or omit? Without automaticity in recall of subtraction and division, which the CCMS omit, science says younger kids will be unable to do calculations of any complexity.
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