2019 Nation report card: Mississippi 4th grade math score 241, California 235

[lhpartridge]

The fourth grade NAEP scores from Mississippi are a direct result of the newly installed third grade reading gate. The students who could not pass the third grade exit test were blocked from going to fourth grade where they would affect the state's scores. The side benefit was that these students were also likely weak in math, so the same students who would not have passed the reading would also not have passed the math. This does not represent an increase as much as it represents manipulation of the tested population.

[MPowering1]

Originally Posted by whogo

Every one can post simplistic statistics defending their point of view.

Demographics is the number one statistic that influences school ratings.

The Houston ISD used to post test scores of each school by demographics. Asians and whites nearly universally finished first and second. Hispanics and blacks third and fourth.

The poster asked for cost per student information which I provided. You're arguing just to argue and with the wrong person, by the way.