Yet another reason for school reform

Wisconsin State Journal Editorial:

Worst in the nation?

What an embarrassment.

More importantly, what a loss of young talent for our state.

Wisconsin must do better when it comes to teaching students - especially black students - to read.

Black fourth-graders in Wisconsin just posted the lowest reading scores among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Only 9 percent of black fourth-graders in Wisconsin performed at or above the proficient level. That compares to 38 percent of white fourth-graders, itself a discouraging number.

Those percentages increase to 38 percent for blacks and 75 percent for whites when fourth-graders who can read at a "basic" level are included.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 26, 2010 8:50 AM
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