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To: LindyBill who wrote (228184)	11/15/2007 6:02:35 PM
From: SirWalterRalegh	Read Replies (3) of 793958

< These results may surprise people who have heard so much over the past five years from the Bloomberg administration and some of the media about New York City's "historic" gains on the state's math and reading tests. But the NAEP doesn't lie; it measures achievement far more accurately than state tests do. No doubt the administration will put the best face on the latest test data. But the reality is that $7 billion in extra education spending has so far produced only pennies' worth of academic improvement in most grades. The sooner the city faces up to the bottom line, the sooner we can start speaking honestly about how to remedy the situation. The first remedy is to give the tests to the teachers.

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