Black elementary school students attending Chicago Public Schools continue to improve on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test each school year.Now the question I want to ask and hopefully parents as well is why are black students lagging as far as the scores on these standardized test?
Black students went from 54.2 percent meeting or exceeding state standards on the ISAT in the 2006-2007 school year, to 58.3 percent in the 2007-2008 school year. And since 2001, when the percentage of Black students meeting or exceeding state standards was 30.5 percent, the percentage has nearly doubled, according to CPS officials.
But they still lag behind their white counterparts.
In the 2006-2007 academic year, 85.3 percent of white students met or exceeded state standards on the ISAT, while 85 percent met or exceeded state standards in 2007- 2008.
Each year, the ISAT is given to public school students in third through eighth grade. Overall, CPS students improved across the board in reading, math and science.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Black students improve on ISAT, scores still lag behind white students
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