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S.D. pupils post gains on federal math tests
- 12-09-2009
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By Maureen Magee/San Diego Union-Tribune
San Diego’s eighth-graders are in the national spotlight for making the most progress on a federal math assessment administered in the nation’s largest urban school districts. Released yesterday, the “Nation’s Report Card” shows results from math tests taken by fourth- and eighth-graders last academic year in 18 big-city districts. Although the San Diego Unified School District made overall gains in both grade levels, the eight-point jump made by eighth-graders has academics buzzing. Michael Casserly, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Council of the Great City Schools, told the district that its increase represents one of the largest gains he has seen in the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Peggy Carr, associate commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics in Washington, D.C., said the gains made by San Diego students were impressive. (more...)
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