How Do We Get More People to Have Good Lives? [NYTimes.com]

Samantha Sangenito 6/4/154:00 AM

The Obama administration has invested heavily in a data-based drive to improve the math, reading and science skills of the nation’s school children.

So what do the numbers show?

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in the six years from 2007 to 2013 (the most recent year for which test results are available), the reading scores of fourth graders have gone from 221 to 222, on a scale of 0 to 500, an increase of 0.45 percent. Fourth-grade math scores have risen from 240 to 242 over the same period, an increase of 0.83 percent.

[For more of this story, written by Thomas B. Edsall, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06...ype=article&_r=0]

Attachments

Show

Add Comment

Comments (0)

<ul id="{%=id%}ButtonGroup" class="button-group h-popup-buttons even-button-group even-1">
    <li id="{%=id%}Okay_buttonContainer"><a id="{%=id%}Okay" href="javascript:void(0);" class="button success no-margin-bottom h-alert-modal-ok-button" role="button">OK</a><script type="text/javascript">
        (function() {
            function {%=id%}Okay_click(event, data) {
            {%=id%}Popup.hide();
        }
        
                $('#{%=id%}Okay').on('click', {%=id%}Okay_click);
        })();
    </script></li></ul><a href="javascript:void(0);" class="close-reveal-modal" aria-label="Close Modal">&#215;</a><div class="last-modal-focus focus-utility-element" tabindex="0"></div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
        (function() {
            {%=id%}Popup = new SS.Popup.ModalPopup('{%=id%}');
        })();
    </script>

Skip to main content

Attachments

Add Comment

Membership Required

Remove From Your Block List

Manage Follow Preferences

Block

Please wait...