From the SN mailbag:
“Your headline and lead on the SSD test score story are misleading. Rather than being “at or above” state standards, I would say “at or below” is more accurate.
“Of 17 separate tests (6 grades of language arts, 6 grades of math, 5 subject areas), the SSD outperformed the state on 7 but was behind on 10.
“Although I would consider most of the SSD’s scores statistical ties with the state scores, 4 tests showed a 9 point or more difference. Unfortunately, the SSD was significantly BELOW the state level on three (4th, 7th, and 8th grade math) of those. Only in Algebra I did the SSD perform significantly better than the state.
“So, we are performing at the average level of argubly the nation’s worst performing state? In a university community? We can do better and let’s work to do that.”
This is an “editorial” without facts, numbers, etc. Did this person have the credentials to interpret the data appropriately?