Yes, Our Urban Kids Is Learning
| Thu Dec. 15, 2011 11:57 AM PST
I didn't write about this when the results were announced last week, but we now have another year's worth of data from the NAEP's Trial Urban District Assessment, a measure of academic progress in big-city school districts. So how are our urban kids doing? Bob Somerby summarizes the results from 2003 through 2011:
Fourth grade math: According to those data, black fourth-graders gained eight points
