Misleading title aside, the Buffalo News report was not good. “Students in Buffalo statewide make modest gains in math,” declared an article in the New York newspaper detailing the results from the second year of Common Core implementation. Well yes, math scores did overall improve. But, the rest of the report was not quite so rosy:
Despite another
full year of preparation by schools after the rollout of state Common Core
tests in 2013, there were no dramatic, across-the-board gains in English this
year. Large-city districts saw slight year-to-year improvement, but wealthier
suburban districts statewide actually saw overall declines on the English exam.
The detailed grade
proficiency results in New York from 2012 through 2014 are downright
embarrassing. Even the most successful schools weren’t spared from Common Core.
Take Ledgeview Elementary School, for example. This school boasted a 91.2
percent proficiency in 2012 for third grade math. The next year, those scores
slid down to 76.3 percent. It ticked back up slightly in 2014 to 82 percent,
but that was small consolation……To Read More….
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