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Public schools got their report cards last week with the release of national reading and math test scores. A look at what the results say about student skills--and No Child Left Behind (NCLB), President Bush's three-year-old education initiative...
...students scoring higher? Yes and no. The results of the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress were the first since broad implementation of No Child Left Behind. On a 500-point scale, fourth-graders improved on average by 1 point in math and 3 points in reading over 2003's results. Eighth-graders scored 1 point higher in math but 1 point lower in reading...
What were scores like before NCLB went into full effect? From 2000 to 2003, when the math exams were last given, fourth-graders' scores jumped 9 points, and eighth-graders' rose 5 points. In reading, the only data were for fourth-graders, whose scores climbed 5 points. So the rate of improvement has slowed...
...kids still getting left behind? The good news is that the gap between math skills of white students and black students is shrinking. But Gage Kingsbury of the Northwest Evaluation Association, which conducts testing for public schools, says the NCLB's goal of eliminating the gap by 2014 seems too optimistic. "At this pace, it'll be 2034 before they're on a par," he says, adding that, without huge advances, achieving parity in reading may take 200 years...
...show differs from the policy-heavy West Wing in that it focuses more on the President's juggling of work and family. In one scene, Allen's husband (Kyle Secor) asks the harried head of state whether she has seen their daughter's math workbook. "Under the portrait of Coolidge," Allen says. The show is really more about a working mom than a woman politician. Indeed, Lurie says Allen was inspired mainly by his mother Tamar, a successful real estate agent. The show is apolitical to a fault: President Allen is an Independent and has a knack for taking tough...