Posted on 08/21/2026 9:43:27 AM PDT by george76
Colorado state officials on Thursday morning released the results of spring 2023 K-12 achievement tests and the results are mixed -- suggesting that where students were developmentally when their learning was disrupted by the COVID pandemic may play a role in how well they're succeeding academically today.
In the English Language Arts portion of the Colorado Measures of Academic Success for example, higher percentages of students in grades 5, 6 and 7 met or exceeded expectations than in 2022, but grades 3 and 4 saw drops or nominal gains.
The CMAS tests students in grades 3-8, finding that across the state 43.7% of students are proficient in English Language Arts and 32.9% are proficient in mathematics.
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A persistent challenge for the state's schools is addressing gaps in achievement by race and ethnicity and by income level. In 8th grade science for example, the Asian, White and Two or More Races groups scored approximately 23-36 percentage points higher than the Black and Hispanic groups.
The achievement gap is most evident in the state's largest school district – Denver Public Schools - where nearly 50% points separate White students from Hispanic and Black students in literacy. The chart further below also illustrates DPS has the widest disparities in achievement by the income level of students' families.
Denver Public Schools English Language Arts Proficiency..
Black 26.70%
Hispanic 24.10%
White 72.70%
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Close the public schools.
they can’t because they are not schools, they are day care for single moms.
Clearly the data is racist
Custom-tailored chatbot tutors ?
Math struggles. = According to the latest CMAS results, 37.8% of eighth graders met or exceeded expectations, up from 34.7% in 2025. In 2022, the percentage of eighth graders in line with expectations, or above them, was at 32.4%.
Students in grades 4 and 6 also outperformed their peers from 2025 — 39% of fourth graders demonstrated proficiency in the spring, up from 36.5% in 2025. The percentage of sixth graders who met and exceeded expectations climbed 1.3 percentage points to 32.7%.
Ninth and 10th graders focused on the PSAT had a better handle on math concepts than their peers in 2025. The proficiency rate for ninth grade students ticked up 3 percentage points to 40.5% while 38.9% of 10th grade students met or exceeded expectations, up 2.5 percentage points from results the previous year.
Eleventh grade students’ math skills mirrored those of students who sat for the SAT in 2025, with the rate of students reaching and surpassing benchmarks down by less than 1 percentage point to 31.6%.
The rebound in math is moving students in the right direction, but the work is not over, Córdova said, noting proficiency rates in math are lower than in reading and writing.
https://coloradosun.com/2026/08/19/colorado-students-cmas-psat-sat-results-standardized-testing/
So “women and minorities hardest hit” is true!?
1) Government overreaction at the time of COVID resulted in school shutdowns and social changes which screwed up a lot of young people.
2) The only way to fix this is to implement new levels of government overreaction.
The lower scores for blacks are likely mostly due to no dads in the home and working mom has no time to help with reading and math. Low Hispanic scores likely due to illegals who never learned to read in their own language and cannot master reading in Engish.
A related story:
I’m a retired urban public school teacher. Absenteeism was a big problem, especially for students in the lower-level classes. Classes like basic math.
Then the superintendent did a bold thing. He said any student who missed more than 9 days a quarter would automatically fail. No make-up work would be given. (A day with a doctor’s note did not count.)
Attendance magically improved. Then some parent sued, and the policy was dropped.
Sigh. Then back to many students missing 2 or 3 days a week. A student with that kind of attendance record won’t be passing any standardized tests.
The answer to that mystery is in the “Bell Curve”.
It pretty much explains most if not all the differences in racial and gender group performance in real life.
But it’s the elephant in the room nobody wants to see.
The elites want low information, useful idiots ? = easier to control.
Harvard has implemented remedial math classes.. now teaching middle school math courses ..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4309703/posts
“Trust the science” only applies if it is the desired outcome.
And of course, incompetence by woke ‘eddikatorz’ has absolutely no effect on the poor-assed results. Colorado ‘skoolz’ have been Californicated. My nephew just moved out of CO (along with his high paying job) in order to allow his children to attend a top notch private school. It has teachers, not ‘eddikatorz’, and they can actually do math, know real history, and can define what is a male and female.
New York = More than half of 3rd-5th graders fail basic reading tests with more than half not even proficient ...
New York is spending about $37,000 per student — the highest of any state in the nation on public education and about double the national average
I think we should seriously consider making welfare payments to parents contingent upon how well their children are doing in school.
> The elites want low information, useful idiots ? = easier to control. <
That’s part of the problem. But a greater problem is this toxic DEI nonsense. DEI has really gripped most urban school districts
The urban district where I taught had a whole list of problems. I could write a book. But at least we offered honors classes for the better students. Real learning could be done in those classes.
I bet you can guess what happened. Those honors classes weren’t diversified enough. So most of them were eliminated. No more Honors Algebra, etc.
The increase in math will be Asian students, just sayin’.
“A persistent challenge for the state’s schools is addressing gaps in achievement by race and ethnicity and by income level.”
The cheapest, easiest fix is to deprive and handicap the high performers. Let’s do that.
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