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To: LindyBill who wrote (2453)	6/20/2003 1:56:50 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793896

It would be interesting to see how the current NY State Regents tests compare to those of 50 or more years ago. I saw one site while checking for that that said the NY State Regents tests were from the 1960's...That is not true. They were much before then, and should be on file someplace. My husband took them, and was a Regent's Scholar when that meant something. It helped him get into nearly any school of his choosing...including RPI, Cal Tech and MIT.

To: LindyBill who wrote (2453)	6/20/2003 2:23:28 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793896

Notes from your Reply #2442: These simply speak for themselves. The first shows that it isn't "just how much money" that can be thrown at the situation... 4) The District's percentage of "below basic" readers also was 20 percentage points higher than the national average for city students, even though the District's $9,650 per-pupil cost and average teacher salary of $48,651 topped all but a few states, according to the report. (from the WA Times) and this speaks to having parents and students that care enoughto "JUST DO IT." Nationwide, the test results continued to show significant racial achievement gaps at each grade level. Girls performed better than boys at all grade levels, a gap that widened among high school seniors. Students from lower-income homes lagged behind their more affluent peers. Most troubling, officials said, is that white and Asian American students continued to outscore blacks and Hispanics by wide margins. (from the WPo)