New Jersey test results show poor students continue to lag far behind their peers
Posted: Monday, January 3, 2011 8:21 pm | Updated: 7:57 am, Tue Jan 4, 2011.
The academic performance of New Jersey students living in poverty continues to lag far behind that of their nondisadvantaged peers, preliminary results of state tests given to public school students in 2010 show.
New Jersey students from socioeconomically disadvantaged families, identified as those in the free- and reduced-fee meal program, remain far behind their peers in every grade in both math and language arts, the test results show. In third grade, 87 percent of nondisadvantaged students passed the math test, but only 63 percent of disadvantaged students passed math. In high school, 80 percent of nondisadvantaged 11th-graders passed