DOVER, Del. (AP) - Delaware students' performance on a new standardized test linked to Common Core academic standards shows a continuing achievement gap between black students and other subgroups.
Statewide, barely half of Delaware students, 52 percent, showed proficiency in English language arts on the Smarter Balanced assessment. Less than 39 percent scored proficiently in math, including less than one-fourth of 11th graders.
But new figures presented to the state Board of Education on Thursday that only 36 percent of black students met the proficiency standards on the English test, compared to 64 percent of white students and 80 percent of Asian-American students.
In math, 22 percent of black students scored proficiently, compared to 51 percent of white students and 73 percent of Asian-American students.
