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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Jersey Jazzman: Cerf: Facts Have A Racial Bias

Jersey Jazzman: Cerf: Facts Have A Racial Bias:

Cerf: Facts Have A Racial Bias

There is no other way to read this latest pronouncement from ACTING NJ Education Commissioner Cerf:
AP: What's the state of public education in New Jersey? How do we compare to other states?
Cerf: We compare very well from an aggregate perspective if you take the NAEP, the National Assessment of Educational Progress. New Jersey typically ranks within the top two to four in each of the four major categories.
It's a reflection of a very evolved, very developed, very successful education system in the main. The dissonance in that is if you get beneath the numbers, beneath the aggregates,