(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
A number of state Hispanic sectors closed the gap with the lowest performing statewide Anglo sector (274) in 8th grade math, which is good #MOARRR!
Jay P. Greene's Blog
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(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)
A number of state Hispanic sectors closed the gap with the lowest performing statewide Anglo sector (274) in 8th grade math, which is good #MOARRR!
Jay P. Greene's Blog 
Have you noticed that the stronger segments (say 75 percentile and up) generally improved and the weak ones (25 percentile and below) deteriorated in essentially all four tests? That kept the average scores barely changed, yet the gaps between the low-achievers and high achievers grew.
Not surprising if states where the bottom quartile is most educationally neglected (low gains) are also the states where the bottom quartile have low levels of pre-educational well-being (low levels).
I heard that this was the case in the national data.
I assumed he was referring to the national data.
Isn’t most federal and state money today targeted to the bottom quartile? But results don’t show it. What does that mean?
Spending increases don’t produce improvement. But we knew that.