🚀 go-pugleaf

<makemyday@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message 
news:416BD3D4.2827411D@worldnet.att.net...
>
> You can lead an IQ-75_Horse to water, but...
>
> **************************** exZZZZZZZZZZZZZerpt ********************
> Schools' politics focus on Ackerman - Superintendent may lose job...
> Tuesday, October 12, 2004
> [...]
> Since Ackerman took her post in 2000, the district has racked up four
> years of rising achievement as measured by standardized test scores,
> but it has shown less progress on a chief goal of hers -- closing the
> achievement gap between African American students and their peers....
>
> A school district's primary job is to boost the academic achievement
> of its students -- and Ackerman has done this in terms of standardized
> tests. Scores have been climbing for all groups of students, and San
> Francisco does better on tests than any other urban district in the
> state.
>
> But even though the district's African American students' scores are
> improving, they still are lower than those of African American
> students in any other California urban district. Their high school
> grade point average has been stuck at about 1.86 (D-plus) since 1999;
> their attendance has not improved despite new truancy initiatives;
> and they comprise 53.5 percent of the district's suspensions
> but make up just 14.5 percent of enrollment....
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Sounds like they need to focus more on formative assessment doesn't it.

PH