Good news for Delaware students.
Around 10-thousand more students in Delaware achieved proficiency in reading last year while 9-thousand more scored proficient in math.
That’s according to the statewide assessments made public yesterday by the Delaware Secretary of Education Mark Murphy.
Overall, grades 3 through 10 showed that 73 percent were proficient in read, while 72 percent of students were proficient in math.
The Wilmington News Journal reports no one can say with certainty why the scores went up.
Murphy said he was putting together a team to figure out what is working, so that when the $119 million from the federal Race to the Top grant runs out the department will know which programs are worth keeping.
Science and social studies showed less dramatic gains.
And, there is still a gap between certain minority groups and their white peers.
Special education students and low-income students continued to score lower.
