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Summary of what I learned from the 2011 NAEP TUDA report

Written by Guy Brandenburg for his blog. Read the entire post here.

  • DCPS is **not* last in every single category, in fact it’s number one in most measures of disparity of scores between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’. (ie whites vs blacks, whites vs hispanics, poor vs non-poor) Only Atlanta comes close.
  • DCPS leadership under Rhee et al has witnessed this gap grow wider not smaller
  • Other trends have not changed much: eg gains in math (but not as much from 2009 to 2011 as it was in