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Leaked documents show Baltimore high schoolers perform math, reading at grade school level
WBFF ^ | June 2nd 2021 | CHRIS PAPST

Posted on 08/11/2021 6:25:39 PM PDT by george76

An alarming discovery out of Baltimore City Schools. Project Baltimore has obtained student assessment data that North Avenue does not release publicly. That data shows some students who could soon graduate, are performing at an elementary school level, academically.

Project Baltimore, over the years, has heard from many parents who say their children are being pushed through Baltimore City Schools without getting the education they need. Julie Gaskins told us back in 2018 that her seventh grader was doing math and reading at a second-grade level.

Project Baltimore also spoke with Gregory Gray, a Baltimore City Schools father, back in 2019.

“My son is really in desperate need of tutoring in math,” Gray told Project Baltimore. “And, how did my son pass if he didn't know none of this math?”

Now, Project Baltimore has obtained student assessment scores from just one class, in one high school, that show how widespread the problem appears to be.

iReady is a system schools use to measure at which grade level a student is performing. In Baltimore City Schools, iReady assessments are given in math and reading, three times a year, to measure a student’s progress. The scores we obtained show some students are performing 10 grade levels below their age.

Fox45 News is not disclosing the school or the class to protect student identities. But we can report the iReady scores are for 11th graders in math and reading. Nine students completed the reading assessment, but only two scored at a high school level. One scored at a seventh-grade level. The other six scored at an elementary school level. In math, seven students completed the assessment. Two scored at a high school level. The rest, who are high school juniors in Baltimore City Schools, scored at an elementary level, including one student doing math at a first-grade level.

According to Education.com, a first-grade math worksheet includes simple addition and subtraction, like 2 plus 3 and 9 minus 7. First graders also do connect-the-dot puzzles where they draw lines in numerical order to create an image. The iReady assessments done by North Avenue, show that for at least one student, this is highest level of math they can do, yet that students made it to 11th grade in City Schools.

They were passing students on who couldn't read, who couldn't compute,” said Carl Stokes, a former City Council member and charter school operator. “I know principals in schools who say, it happened to me, who said, ‘I can't pass this student to the next grade. They're not ready.’ North Avenue refused to allow us to fail the students without a fight. And we fought because we knew we would be hurting the kid.”

Stokes said at his charter school, which closed last year, about 90 percent of his incoming sixth graders, every year, were not reading or doing math at grade level. Ninety percent had iReady scores below the grade the students were in at the time.

That's the deal we have here. We have thousands of kids who are not getting an education, who get out of school or quit school and they have no skillset to sustain themselves. They can't. They can't get a decent job. They can't live well,” said Stokes.

The iReady scores we have are for just 16 students in one class at one school. Project Baltimore has filed a public records request with City Schools for additional iReady scores, minus any personally identifying student information. We reached out to Baltimore City Schools for this story but did not receive a response.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: arth; baltimore; bidenvoters; diversity; equity; highschoolers; inclusion; maryland; math; reading; school; schools
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1 posted on 08/11/2021 6:25:39 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

So things are improving?


2 posted on 08/11/2021 6:27:14 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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Math is racist, everyone knows that. They will be given Engineering positions at NASA to make up for white privilege.


3 posted on 08/11/2021 6:27:46 PM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: george76

This is my shocked face.

Liberals made it happen, and continue to make it happen.


4 posted on 08/11/2021 6:27:58 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: george76

Too many white racists running the Baltimore government and the Baltimore school system.


5 posted on 08/11/2021 6:28:35 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population has no political representation.)
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To: george76

I am surprised that it is that high.


6 posted on 08/11/2021 6:28:55 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: george76

That is the level of learning the Union Teachers know.


7 posted on 08/11/2021 6:31:58 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: george76

While I am glad for these results rather than the headline these two statements say a lot:

That data shows some students

scores we have are for just 16 students in one class at one school.


8 posted on 08/11/2021 6:33:22 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: george76

What agency/organization defines the “norm”?


9 posted on 08/11/2021 6:34:10 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: george76

Here in Los Angeles it is 75% of High School Graduates can not read, write or count past a third grade level


10 posted on 08/11/2021 6:34:12 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Jolla

and this third statement regarding high schoolers

performing at an elementary school level, academically.


11 posted on 08/11/2021 6:34:58 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: george76

To what do they attribute this great improvement?


12 posted on 08/11/2021 6:35:30 PM PDT by rhinohunter
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To: george76

Just another example of systematic racism...


13 posted on 08/11/2021 6:36:26 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: george76

I’d say our public schools are working EXACTLY as planned, at least in our cities.


14 posted on 08/11/2021 6:36:30 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: george76
We know that there are two students who are performing math and reading at their grade level, that is, until the gangbangers whack them.

-PJ

15 posted on 08/11/2021 6:37:35 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: george76

Yea, but their looting skills are extraordinary….


16 posted on 08/11/2021 6:37:40 PM PDT by Envisioning (Carry safe, always carry, everyday, everywhere.)
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To: george76

Idiocracy is real.


17 posted on 08/11/2021 6:43:27 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: rhinohunter

This is why blacks think whites are racist....They get a diploma saying they graduated from high school.....But when they go to get jobs no one will hire them....this has been going on for seventy years...

Thomas Sowell said when he went to school the black students were on par with the white students...1944 to 1955... school were segregated at the time..


18 posted on 08/11/2021 6:45:09 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: george76

Anyone who has studied IQ is not surprised.

This isn’t about bad teachers or Democrat control of schools, although that can be a part. It’s demographics and innate IQ.

It’s time to face reality.


19 posted on 08/11/2021 6:49:22 PM PDT by bhl
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To: george76

Schools are n ot in the business of teaching reading writing and Rithmetic or other similarly racist subjects any more.


20 posted on 08/11/2021 6:52:25 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe kik)
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