Did D.C. test scores fall as security tightened?
There’s no way to know with certainty. But 24 of the 41 DCPS schools that had classrooms flagged by D.C. officials for high rates of wrong-to-right erasures on the 2010 DC CAS saw reading and math pass rates drop in 2011, new test data shows. Another 10 dropped in at least one category.
As my colleagues Nick Anderson and Jay Mathews reported last week, among the biggest losers were J.O. Wilson Elementary and the Noyes Education Campus. The latter was the focus of a USA Today investigationpublished in March raising questions about test score gains across the District. After 16 of Noyes’s 20