State's black fourth-graders post worst reading scores in U.S.
Reading scores for Wisconsin's African-American fourth-graders trail those of their racial peers in every other state and the District of Columbia, according to a national government report that delivered dire news Wednesday about how Wisconsin prepares its students.
Further, fourth-graders as a whole in Wisconsin are losing ground in reading while other states make gains, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the nation's report card. Only 33% of the state's fourth-graders scored at a level considered proficient or advanced by the test; the rest scored at a basic level or lower.
Reading results for Wisconsin's eighth-grade students, the other grade that took the reading test, were somewhat more promising.
Wisconsin's eighth-graders matched their highest score of the last decade. Even so, only 34% of Wisconsin's eighth-graders were considered proficient in reading.
However, the average score for African-American eighth-graders was the same as that for three other states and higher only than the average from black students in Arkansas. The average score for black Wisconsin eighth-graders was even below the average score for the state's eighth-grade English language learners. In other words, black students scored poorer in reading than students for whom English is not their native-born language. (How the fuck does that happen?)
"It's an outrage," said Howard Fuller, former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent, voucher advocate and head of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University, in response to the latest scores. "And the thing that angers me more is that there is no widespread outrage. We get these statistics, and people mutter the normal this and that, but then everyone goes back to whatever they were doing."
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/89007417.html
They should all be fired, but we know that will never happen.
Reading scores for Wisconsin's African-American fourth-graders trail those of their racial peers in every other state and the District of Columbia, according to a national government report that delivered dire news Wednesday about how Wisconsin prepares its students.
Further, fourth-graders as a whole in Wisconsin are losing ground in reading while other states make gains, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the nation's report card. Only 33% of the state's fourth-graders scored at a level considered proficient or advanced by the test; the rest scored at a basic level or lower.
Reading results for Wisconsin's eighth-grade students, the other grade that took the reading test, were somewhat more promising.
Wisconsin's eighth-graders matched their highest score of the last decade. Even so, only 34% of Wisconsin's eighth-graders were considered proficient in reading.
However, the average score for African-American eighth-graders was the same as that for three other states and higher only than the average from black students in Arkansas. The average score for black Wisconsin eighth-graders was even below the average score for the state's eighth-grade English language learners. In other words, black students scored poorer in reading than students for whom English is not their native-born language. (How the fuck does that happen?)
"It's an outrage," said Howard Fuller, former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent, voucher advocate and head of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University, in response to the latest scores. "And the thing that angers me more is that there is no widespread outrage. We get these statistics, and people mutter the normal this and that, but then everyone goes back to whatever they were doing."
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/89007417.html
They should all be fired, but we know that will never happen.
