A Educational Nightmare at Rochester Public Schools - Independent School District #535!

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said yesterday that the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress results show "encouraging but modest" signs of progress. (Quick take: 8th graders' average score in math increased 1 point since 2011, the last time the test was given, and 3 points in reading on the exam's 500-point scale. Fourth graders inched up 1 point in math. But there was no statistically significant gain in reading for fourth graders. Way more from Catherine Gewertz of Curriculum Matters fame.)