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Md. high school test scores barely improve -- January 3, 2004
Maryland students scored poorly on the new high school competency examinations again last
year...About half of 65,000 students failed the 2003 algebra and biology tests, Four in 10 failed
government, and six in 10 failed English, including a large majority of *MINORITY* students...
In Anne Arundel County, MINORITY STUDENTS LOST MORE GROUND THAN WHITE students...At the county's
Southern High School, fewer than 18 percent of black students passed the algebra assessment - *DROP*
of nearly 40 percentage points from 2002.
"But it does point to areas that we have to focus on," said Supt. Eric J. Smith, who was concerned
about the INCREASED FAILURE RATE AMONG MINORITIES. "We don't have time to waste," said Smith, who
added he is confident that the racial achievement gap will close in coming years, now that several
academic initiatives are in place. [No more b#llsh#t statement of hopelessness was ever uttered]
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DAFNz - What Mother_Nature hath genetically created *DUMB*...
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