New state????test scores from NY show gains for kids in the Big Apple!
Or do they? ????Read to the bottom of the article and you'll see that Mike P, among others, is skeptical.
Fordham trustee Diane Ravitch has continuously argued against claims of significant improvement in NYC. See her recent NYT op-ed here. Klein's team responded with this memo. ????A big part of the debate is about which test scores to use--the state's or NAEP. ????(Check out????for yourself????what????NAEP TUDA has to say about NYC????here????and here.)
Although Ravitch raises fair points about the lack of progress on NAEP, I side with the pro-Klein camp, both because the state data is rather convincing and because the systemic changes he's implemented are the best I've seen in any US city.
But if Klein's gains are real, they should be reflected in better scores on the 2009 TUDA, the results of which are due this year.