Moral: Never Tie Your Legacy To School Test Scores
It will eventually bite you in the ass:
Posted: December 8th, 2011 | Filed under: Insert Muted Trumpet's Sad Wah-Wah Here, Well, What Did You Expect?In a stunning blow to Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy on education, new national exam results show the city’s math and reading scores have flatlined since 2009.
Eighth-grade reading scores have stagnated since 2003, when the Bloomberg administration reforms first took effect.
There’s also been no significant improvement in the percentage of eighth-graders who tested “proficient” or above in math, the scores released Wednesday show.
