Detroit Public Schools students posted the worst math results ever recorded in the 40-year history of a prestigious nationwide test, according to scores released today.
Sixty-nine percent of fourth-graders and 77 percent of eighth-graders scored below basic skill levels in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a standardized test that serves as a nationwide yardstick in measuring student learning.
"These numbers are only slightly better than what one would expect by chance as if the kids had never gone to school and simply guessed at the answers," said Michael Casserly.
Detroit students score record low on national math test
Yeah black kids are bad at math. But worse then 40 years ago? In this case it's a combination of things. Most of the better kids that would increase the avg. have gone outside of the public school system into private alternatives leaving the worst of the worst. Forty years ago there wasn't that option. Although 40 years ago the kids were mostly white (that's when I was a student) so it's apples and oranges.
Plus back in the day white society reigned in some of the worst aspects of black behavior. Nowadays urban blacks don't care about school and there's no whitey truent officer and bad ass principal to make them. Seriously, this country is going to be like Rwanda in a few years. Enjoy!
Sixty-nine percent of fourth-graders and 77 percent of eighth-graders scored below basic skill levels in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a standardized test that serves as a nationwide yardstick in measuring student learning.
"These numbers are only slightly better than what one would expect by chance as if the kids had never gone to school and simply guessed at the answers," said Michael Casserly.
Detroit students score record low on national math test
Yeah black kids are bad at math. But worse then 40 years ago? In this case it's a combination of things. Most of the better kids that would increase the avg. have gone outside of the public school system into private alternatives leaving the worst of the worst. Forty years ago there wasn't that option. Although 40 years ago the kids were mostly white (that's when I was a student) so it's apples and oranges.
Plus back in the day white society reigned in some of the worst aspects of black behavior. Nowadays urban blacks don't care about school and there's no whitey truent officer and bad ass principal to make them. Seriously, this country is going to be like Rwanda in a few years. Enjoy!