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On the Blog Post A New Online Tool for Parents to Evaluate Schools
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8:04 am on Friday, March 9, 2012
Clay, thanks for sharing your comment. What makes our online tool different is that it also highlights the achievement gap for each school. On the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress, Maryland has the second largest disparity in the country between the academic performance of low-income students and their wealthier peers in eighth-grade math. We have the fourth largest gap in eighth-grade reading. We wanted to highlight the achievement gaps in schools so that, as a state, we can work towards closing them.