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Something Is Fishy in the State of Denmark (Apologies to Mr. Shakespeare)
August 30, 2010 by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 11:41 AM
Today, Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office released the results of the 2010 Grade 3, 6, and 9 testing. In general, a higher percentage of students is meeting the provincial standard, but the pattern is kind of strange. The students were tested in reading, writing, and math in grades 3 and 6, and in math in grade 9. Improvement was shown over a five-year period in every category except grade 3 reading and grade 6 math. Does anyone have an explanation as to how, for example, grade 3 students can get better at math, grade 6 students get worse, and then grade 9 students get better? This isn’t the way things normally work!