California Already Ranks Near The Bottom In Education And By 2014 It Will Be Worse
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 17:21
in Mathematics & Economics
How well students and schools succeed in mastering a curriculum that includes English Language Arts (ELA), mathematics, and the social and natural sciences, strongly influences how well the students fare in higher education. In California, student mastery in ELA and mathematics is measured with the California Standards Tests (CST). Apparently, California is not doing very well. UC Riverside's Richard Cardullo examined several years of CST data and his mathematical models predict that nearly all elementary schools in California will fail to meet even the minimum requirements under the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" (NCLB) by 2014. Read More...
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