77% tested at Baltimore high school read at elementary level, some at kindergarten level

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77% tested at Baltimore high school read at elementary level, some at kindergarten level

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A Baltimore City teacher came forward with devastating information that showed 77% of students tested at one high school are reading at an elementary school level.

The teacher works at Patterson High School, one of the largest high schools in Baltimore with a 61% graduation rate and a nearly $12 million budget. We agreed not to identify this source who fears retribution for giving Project Baltimore the results of iReady assessments.

In reading, 628 Patterson High School students took the test. Out of those students, 484 of them, or 77%, tested at an elementary school reading level. That includes 71 high school students who were reading at a kindergarten level and 88 students reading at a first-grade level. Another 45 are reading at a second-grade level. Just 12 students tested at Patterson High School, were reading at grade level, which comes out to just 1.9%.

Project Baltimore asked how a student who reads at an elementary school level could reach high school. “They're pushed through,” replied the teacher. “They're not ready for the workforce. They're not ready for further education.” When asked if it’s social promotion, the teacher replied, “Yes.”
 
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Project Baltimore spoke with a teacher who works at Patterson High School. We asked if students have graduated from the school who should not have.

“Yes,” replied the teacher. “They were pushed through. They met the minimum of a standard that has been lowered and lowered and lowered to what it is now, to where it's just accepted.”

Baltimore City Schools has a "one fail" policy, which states, “students cannot be retained a second time prior to ninth grade.”

“What do we do?” asked Basu. “Do we kick you out of high school? Do we not let you graduate? Do we doom you to a life of economic failure because you don't have that very basic economic or educational credential?” According to Basu, students should not be allowed to fall so far behind. But if they don’t ever catch up academically, the school system can teach them a trade to support themselves, because the students cannot enter the real world without options.
 
Two-thirds of American children do not read at grade level. Yes, the poorer the area the lower the proficiency level.

Let’s take a look at Harlan County High Scool:

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39% reading proficiency
27% math proficiency
96% graduation rate

And this is one of the better high schools in Kentucky. Why are their scores so low? Median income in Harlan County is $27,000.

Tucker Carlson is an asshole because he teaches right wingers to hate black people by denigrating where they live. But while he is doing that he is distracting you from the real problem which poverty.

As long as the right is focused on race the poverty issue goes unaddressed and we all suffer. Not only the people living in poverty but the generations that will not realize their potential and grow the country.
 
UsualName said:
Two-thirds of American children do not read at grade level. Yes, the poorer the area the lower the proficiency level.

Let’s take a look at Harlan County High Scool:

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39% reading proficiency
27% math proficiency
96% graduation rate

And this is one of the better high schools in Kentucky. Why are their scores so low? Median income in Harlan County is $27,000.

Tucker Carlson is an asshole because he teaches right wingers to hate black people by denigrating where they live. But while he is doing that he is distracting you from the real problem which poverty.

As long as the right is focused on race the poverty issue goes unaddressed and we all suffer. Not only the people living in poverty but the generations that will not realize their potential and grow the country.
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It is aptitude driven in the inner cities. Poverty is a consequence. The stats and science say you are wrong.
 
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Cuddles said:
He's saying blacks are low IQ but thinks he's being high IQ about it.

IOW, just another racist ET troll
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Not exactly. Integration separated a lot of these neighborhoods from their homegrown professionals, many of whom moved to the suburbs in the '70s and '80s. What remains is the left side of the distribution curve.

The school systems need expanded vocational training, but the problem is pretty much intractable.
 
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ipatent said:
Not exactly. Integration separated a lot of these neighborhoods from their homegrown professionals, many of whom moved to the suburbs in the '70s and '80s. What remains is the left side of the distribution curve.
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A lot of this sounds like your personal beliefs. Have you ever done any actual research or is there any research you can point to that backs up your claims?
 
UsualName said:
A lot of this sounds like your personal beliefs. Have you ever done any actual research or is there any research you can point to that backs up your claims?
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What's left in those neighborhoods is disproportionately in the shaded area on the left. Many blacks to the right of that have left and joined the middle class.
 
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