The L.A. School Report – Craig Clough
“California is woefully deficient in providing quality math education to low-income students and students of color and needs to make a better coordinated effort as it switches to the new Common Core State Standards in math (CCSSM), according to a new report from Education Trust-West. Fifteen percent of low-income eighth-grade students in California earned proficient or better scores on the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress math assessment, while 45 percent of their non–economically-disadvantaged peers achieved proficiency, the report points out. By race, 11 percent of African American and 15 percent of Latino eighth-grade students scored proficient or above, compared with 42 percent of white students and 61 percent of Asian students.”(more)