Connecticut students who took the state’s Smarter Balanced test in the spring showed significant improvement over last year, though less than half of the state’s students are meeting or exceeding the achievement standard on the math section of the exam.
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Jeffrey Villar, executive director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, said the improvement in test scores is “encouraging,” but said “the pace of improvement has been faster for white students than students of color. This should remind us all of the need to identify … practices that work for our highest-need student groups.”
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