On the heels of Philadelphia's crackdown on misbehaving students comes some good news - Philly's test scores are up:
The TerraNova test results, says school district CEO Paul Vallas, find that student scores continue to improve across the board:
"In eight of ten grades, we saw improvement in reading scores. In nine of ten grades we saw improvement in language arts scores. And in seven of nine grades we saw improvement in math scores.
"While we saw solid growth in our reading scores, the growth in math was very strong. And let me point out that the strongest growth was in the middle grades -- 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grades."
Posted by kswygert at June 15, 2004 09:26 AM