Reading scores fell in New York City public schools this year, coincident with a major literacy curriculum overhaul ordered up by Mayor Adams and Chancellor David Banks. Don’t panic. The headlines are that state English Language Arts exam results slipped overall by 2.6 percentage points, so that now just 49.1% of students in grades 3-8 are considered proficient at their grade level. Math scores jumped by 3.5 percentage points, suggesting that this is not some wider phenomenon involving COVID hangover or the link. The reason the ELA slip gets special attention is that it coincides with a signature Adams-Banks reform: […]
