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Smart List: 60 People Shaping the Future of K-12 Education
Grade 4 reading
1992*: 188
1994*: 179
1998*: 182
1998: 179
2002: 191
2003: 188
2005: 191
2007: 197
2009: 202
Grade 8 reading
1998* 236
1998: 236
2002: 240
2003: 239
2005: 238
2007: 241
2009: 242
These scores have been going up before Mrs. Rhee.
Ha–i was going to make that point as well. Note Andy doesn’t point that out. He is guilty of the same strategies he pooh-poohs in another post.
If someone who opposes them failed to point out such a detail, he would blast them. But he and his buddies do;t held themselves to the same standard.
“Rhee credited a recent citywide focus on literacy for the school system’s gains.”
Not Reading First, not charter schools, not new teachers, not TFA, not any of the conservative reform movement’s special sauce.
I wonder if she truly has a clue why it happened.
There’s something sad about “reformers” praising the work of a (possibly) dishonest teacher-basher.