It’s really about time to stop beating around the
proverbial bush.
We have now been promised a presentation about the
most recent round of MCAS scores.
The basic question that needs to be answered is,
after a period of seeming progress, how did the results plummet so
dramatically?
It’s not merely that the failure rates for 10th
graders doubled.
How could last year’s sixth graders, who failed the
math portion at a 49% rate, plummet to a 60% failure rate in math as this year’s
seventh graders?
