[Born Conservative]

Black students in Fairfax County are consistently scoring lower on state standardized tests than African American children in Richmond, Norfolk and other comparatively poor Virginia districts, surprising Fairfax educators and forcing one of the nation's wealthiest school systems to acknowledge shortcomings that have been masked by its overall success.

Actually, the adminsitration has known about this for a while, and chose to do nothing about it. It's interesting that the WaPo is just getting around to noticing/publishing this...

[Born Conservative]

[BenLurkin]

"...scoring lower on state standardized tests than African American children in Richmond, Norfolk and other comparatively poor Virginia districts..."

Very interesting!

[FormerLib]

These kids are being hampered by the low expectations the public school system inflicts on them.

[BnBlFlag]

Have these idiots ever heard of the "Bell Curve"?

[Tulane]

It must be sooooo embarrassing to those folks that some first time English learners score higher...How tragic...

Their parent(s) need to spend more time with them doing homework/encouraging studies....It's not the schools (NOVA has some of the best public schools in the country).

[rock_lobsta]

Wow, we've gone this far without the required "Bush's Fault!"

[nmh]

Still vouchers are NOT allowed.

[metmom]

"Something is broken with the way we teach a segment of the population," said John Johnson, education chairman for the Fairfax County NAACP and the father of two students in county schools. "Despite all the things we have at our disposal, our children are being outperformed by people like us -- or people with fewer resources."

Here's a hint: It would help if schools went back to teaching things like: reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. Educators need to get a clue.