Manhattan Had Biggest Common Core Knowledge Gap Among Boroughs, Says Study

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Albert Samaha

The Common Core test, implemented in New York City public schools for the first time last year, caused a stir because much fewer students passed it than the previous version. It set a higher standard for what a student should know, suggesting that past scores were inflated and the education system was all along worse than even what we'd suspected.

The overall score drop, however, was not equal across the board. The knowledge gap was present as always, and black and Hispanic kids had steeper falls than white and Asian kids. For instance, the math proficiency rate dipped 30.5 percent among black sixth graders and 33 percent among Hispanic sixth graders. The rate among Asian and white students in that age group decreased by 24.7 and 29.6, respectively.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/03/common_core_education_gap_study.php

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1. Career and college ready? Not with New York state tests and curriculum!

http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2014/mar/27/career-and-college-ready-not-new-york-state-tests-/