OfTheCross
Veteran
Math and English are basic tests to me...it seems that the teachers are just passing kids along.
What to do about this, brehs?
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article250673134.html?
A majority of Black students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools are failing state tests in English Language Arts, math and science, despite graduation rates topping 85 percent.
The presentation showed multiple charts and data points over time, measuring the period from the 2014-15 school year to 2018-19, the last school year students took the Florida Standards Assessments, the state-mandated standardized test. Students did not take the state tests last year due to the COVID pandemic.
In 2019, just 40 percent of Black students in grades 3 through 10 passed the FSA English language arts exams compared to 61% of Hispanic students and 77 percent of white students.
For the FSA math exam that same year, just 44 percent of Black students in grades 3 through 8 passed compared to 63% of Hispanic students and 78% of white students.
Black students make up 19.2% of the district’s enrollment as the second-largest ethnic group. Hispanic students, the majority, account for 72.6% and white students total 6.4% of enrollment, according to the Florida Department of Education.
“I’m not sure how others are feeling in the room,” she said. “Reading this data, it doesn’t feel good. When we see there are four out of 10 students who are proficient. That means if I walk into a classroom of 20, that means 12 aren’t proficient. That hurts. And I know everyone in this room feels that way. It’s unacceptable.”
Gallon juxtaposed those dismal scores with soaring graduation rates. The graduation rate for Black students in Miami-Dade Schools was 85.6% in the 2019-2020 school year. That rate was 90.3% for Hispanic students and 92.5% for white students. The district’s average was 89.6%.
