Alarm bells needed II

We finished our last post this way: The bottom line: the Massachusetts approach has worked, Michigan’s hasn’t. Seems like its time for Michigan to learn from the state with the highest student achievement in the country. In this post lets look…

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Alarm bells needed

Lots of new data on student achievement by Michigan k-12 students. All with a single conclusion: we are a national laggard. All kids, not just poor kids, minority kids, urban kids. The results from the new state M-STEP assessment show…

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Massachusetts: student achievement

As we explored previously Massachusetts' students rank amongst the best in the world on international math and science tests. The recently released 2013 NAEP--the nation's report card--results for 4th and 8th graders on reading and math solidify  Massachusetts' standing as…

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