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...Opposite Fowler-Finn is School Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, a newcomer with years of management consulting experience. Nolan has often challenged the data presented by the school administration...
...Fowler-Finn points out that the reason for this more pronounced gap is not because the scores for some subgroups are increasing while others are decreasing. He has argued the discrepancy can be accounted by the fact that scores for some groups are increasing faster than others. He says that all groups have seen their scores increase at least somewhat...
...comparing the worst performing subgroup, special education students, to the best, Asians, Fowler-Finn showed how “education equity” could decrease even as test scores increased...
...Despite the broad scale improvement of all subgroups, the Asian students improved 9 points in [English Language Arts (ELA)] versus a 1 point improvement for the lowest scoring group, special education students,” Fowler-Finn wrote in an e-mail...
Test scores have improved across the board under Fowler-Finn’s tenure, from 2003 to 2005. But they have clearly improved more slowly than some committee members would like, and still lag behind state averages...